Burning down the house . . .
Thursday, October 23, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . and forecasts for TulseyTown indicate increasing rain chances, slight today and likely overnight and into tomorrow when heavy rains are predicted. It looks to be a wet weekend. Until the clouds move in on moderate Easterlies, sunny skies prevail with near 80º this afternoon.
The easiest way to navigate The Way: recognize our shared humanity. Works best in silence.
Trump is tearing down your house. – Robert Reich, The Billionaire Ballroom, online 10.23.25
Today is the birth date of Johnny Carson. He was born in 1925, Corning, Iowa.
Corning. Iowa. Parlaying that into a silent synchronistic joke may have powered his career.
me: Johnny, where were you born?
Johnny: Corning.
me: You’re kidding.
Johnny: It’s in Iowa.
Maria Should Have Known Better
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To fall in love is craziness, but to break a heart is cruetly
Carrying on through love's upheavals? That takes a rare warrior.
You are a courtyard that could hold up an elephant;
I'm a crumbline wall of sand.
How can I resurrect it now –
this love I've had in all my past lives?
– Mirabai, “Maria Should Have Known Better,” translated from the Braj Bhasha by Chloe Martinez, in Poetry, November 2025.
“The closer you contemplate beginnings and endings, the more you begin to see that they are impossible.” – Norman Fischer