No time like the present . . .

Sunday, February 8, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . A welcome rain shower greeted TulseyTown this morning. Forecasts indicate easy breezes and a bit of sunshine afternoon in the low 70's.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. – Rachel Carson

Novelist John Grisham is 71 today. The prolific author was born in 1955 Jonesboro, Arkansas.

Poet Elizabeth Bishop was born on this day in 1911 Worcester, Massachusetts.

And it's the birthdate of the “father of science fiction,” Jules Verne. He was born in 1828 Nantes, France.

Cry, the Beloved Country – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought. 2.8.26

In your heart you know, as we do we all, that we are all responsible for what happens in our communities, in our country. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American. posted last night for today.

It's in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually. Fr. Richard Rohr, A Story For All Time, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 2.8.26.

People who do not know how to practice The Way . . . are trying to use The Way to seek the way beyond . . . Before, when you were deluded, it wasn't too late; now you finally realize it isn't too early. – Pao-chih, “The Nonduality Of Enlightenment and Affliction,” The Zen Reader, edited by Thomas Cleary, Shambhala, 2019.