Snowflakes, unite!
Friday, November 7, 2025. It's Freya's day . . . Moderate Northerlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown today, bringing a cooling trend. Sunny skies and mid 70's this afternoon and Saturday are indicated. Downright cold Sunday with a hard freeze Monday morning.
If you can awaken inside the familiar and discover it strange, you need never to leave home.
Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser, Braided Creek, A Conversation in Poetry, Copper Canyon Press, 2003.
Writer Albert Camus was born on this day in 1913 Mondovi, Algeria.
“O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.” – Camus, L’été, first published 1942.
It’s the birthdate of Marie Curie. She was born in 1867, Warsaw, Congress Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire.
Billy Graham was also born on this day in 1918, Charlotte, North Carolina.
What should count as “news” when reporting about Trump? – Robert Reich, online, 11.6.25
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani delivered more than an acceptance/victory speech. Mamdani called for New Yorkers to “leave mediocrity in our past,” and for Democrats to “dare to be great.” When Mamdani said, “New York, this power, it’s yours,” and told New Yorkers, “[t]his city belongs to you,” millions of Americans heard a reminder that they, too, are powerful and that the government of the United States of America belongs to them. Heather Cox Richardson reflected in her Letters From An American.
Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake. – Thomas Frey
And, Joni Mitchell is 82 today. The music experimentalist and maybe the best songwriter ever was born November 7, 1943, Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada.