No fly zone . . .

Wednesday, October 8, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . and forecasts for TulseyTown indicate moderate Northerlies becoming light as clouds begin to part later. Mid 70's. Low 80's tomorrow as this taste of Fall yields to a warming toward a hot weekend and a warm week before returning.

Matt Damon is 55 today. The Academy Award laureate, actor, screenwriter, and producer was born in 1970, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Science fiction writer Frank Herbert (Dune) was born on this date in 1920 Tacoma, Washington.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to another Cal Berkeley professor and two other internationalists.

The power being wielded by unelected officials in the Trump administration echoes the conditions of the U.S. government a century ago which generated the stock market crash and the Great Depression. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

Flying to the end of the shutdown. A credible pundit's prediction coming true. – Robert Reich, online today.

Kite Without a String

A poem at its least can be

a song of praise for its contravention

an ode – to science, mathematics, symbols,

categories, compartmentalism.

But, a poem is a kite without a string –

flying above all that would insist

on extending fear from some wherever

to some other place claiming freedom.

A kite without a string

is a conversation about Truth

trusting no one but the wind.

– jab