A cue ball hits the rack . . .

Tuesday, November 11, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . Moderate to strong Southerlies return to TulseyTown today, bringing a mix of sun and clouds and a warming trend to the end of the week. 70º today, 80's by Saturday.

Think on it: As we are all interconnected, each gesture of love, of kindness is shared with all beings in each moment throughout this day. Fear separates. Love unites.

News of the terms of the deal to end the shutdown hit the country rather like a cue ball hitting a rack: lots of balls started to move in wildly different directions. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

Today is Armistice Day – now called Veterans day in the U.S. – recognizing the signing of the peace treaty that ended World War One. The day was was marked with the burial of unknown soldiers in tombs in Paris and London, and a similar ceremony was held at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, in 1921.

And, today marks the birthdays of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, born in 1821 Moscow, and Kurt Vonnegut, who was born in 1922 Indianapolis, Indiana.

Enlightenment is an accident. We learn from our blunders, misunderstandings, doubts, and misgivings. Mistakes arise naturally when we embrace don’t-know mind. Even though we don’t know where we are within the process of awakening, or where we are going, or how to get there, we remain curious. And curiosity is the spark that fires our attention and vitalizes our commitment to the [meditation] path. – Zen Master Taigen Leighton.

The First Three Words

Insight is not the goal, rather

the beginning.

We enter the world aware,

curious, absent the first three words

that shape our journey: mama,

dada, and … no ...

When we later, sooner would be bester,

begin to seek all those enlightenment

attributes we've been promised,

we come from a place of forgetfulness:

We are already and have been

thus far forever living in an unaware world –

aware. — jab