Mr. Smith finds yet more friends . . .
Friday, October 17, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . .After a cloudy morning, moderate to strong Southerlies are forecasted to bring the sun to TulseyTown this afternoon along with upper 80's. Rain chances are indicated for this evening into tomorrow morning. The warm-cool Fall rollercoaster is under way.
Yesterday, I got ahead of myself thinking the NO KINGS protests were today … so I'm reposting a corrected notice :
With the No Kings protests happening Sunday at thousands of locations nationwide, this will be the third significant day of protest during the second Trump administration... If you are willing, able and available, find a protest near you and attend—behave, keep your eyes open, and be careful. Two locations are scheduled in Tulsa. One at 7st and Memorial in the center of the metro area that begins at 9a.m. and is scheduled to end around 7 p.m. The other is to be at Boulder Park from Noon to 2p.m. No Kings protests are also planned in Bartlesville, Talequah, Muskogee and Stillwater and many other locations throughout Oklahoma.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, American dramatic film, opened in theatres today in 1939. Directed by Frank Capra and starring Jimmy Stewart, it angered the political establishment but won wide acclaim from the public and received 11 Academy Award nominations.
The play and screen writer Arthur Miller (“Death of a Salesman”) was born on this day in 1915 New York City.
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926–2022) and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) shared a friendship based on solidarity with the suffering of one another’s communities. –“A Friendship for Peace,” Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.
When you love beings… not just for their intelligence – and other ephemerical but discernable qualites – but for what those beings have in their very depths, you love them equally: they are entireties. What is surprising is not that we love them all, but rather that we may find what is worthwhile – Friendship: a profound mutual confidence between people, and the joy of knowing that others exist.