The moon's a harsh mistress . . .
Sunday, July 20, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . Extreme heat warnings are in the forecasts for TulseyTown today with indices to 106º under clear skies and moderate to strong Southerlies.
On this day in 1969, U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped from Lunar Module Eagle to the surface of the Moon. Heather Cox Richardson remembers, in Letters From An American.
Today in 1875 the largest recorded swarm of locusts in American history descended upon the Great Plains. It was a swarm about 1,800 miles long, 110 miles wide, from Canada down to Texas.
In 1869, Innocents Abroad was published, firmly establishing its author, Mark Twain, as a serious writer.
It's the birthdate of novelist and screenplay writer Cormac McCarthy. The author of All the Pretty Horses and No Country For Old Men was born on this day in 1933 Providence, Rhode Island.
And Francesco Petrarca was born on this day. The Italian humanist, scholar, and poet better known as Petrarch, was born in1304 Arezzo, Italy.
Sunday Sermon
Collective greed is killing America today. We make everything about money—everything … How can we look at the suffering taking place in Gaza, Ukraine, or Sudan and be anything but sad? It’s sad beyond words or concepts...I recently turned eighty and the older I get, the more it feels like I must forgive almost everything for not being perfect … Forgiveness of reality—including tragic reality—is the heart of the matter. – Fr. Richard Rohr, “Grief, Anger and Compassion,” Meditations, The Center for Action and Meditation, Sunday, July 20, 2025
The moon taps at my window.
Stars spell out their concern.
I pretend I do not see. ― Darshana Suresh
[...]
Yang wants to name and possess
all it names, to become the Sun God
fearful of the changes brought by the Yin moon.
In dreams, the Sun does not blind.
– jab