The sun is thermonuclear . . .

Saturday, November 1, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . Easy Northerlies, sunny skies and upper 50's are in the forecasts for TulseyTown today.

“Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.” —Roald Dahl, Matilda

Today is Dia De Los Muretos. and All Saints Day

On this day in 1952 the United States tested the first hydrogen bomb, 3,000 miles west of Hawaii, in the Marshall Islands. It was a “conservative test” of a then theoretic thermonuclear device.

Today in 1509 the public first saw Michelangelo’s frescoes painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Novelist Stephen Crane was born on this day in 1871 Newark, New Jersey.

The Washington Post is hosting “A Global Women's Summit” (on November 20) that actually looks to be worth the time. Check it out. Pass it on.

In an age where there is much talk about “being yourself,” I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else. – Thomas Merton, “Day of a Stranger,” The Hudson Review, Volume 20, Number 2, 1967

These Mornings

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If I could ask for
any gift to be given
to us all,
over and over
it would simply be

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– Richard Wehrman, (complete poem) “These Mornings,” online 11.1.25