Could a bird guide us home?
Monday, November 10, 2025. It's the Moon's day … Easy Northerlies and sunny skies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown. After a hard morning freeze, temperatures will be much like yesterday in the mid 40's, rising throughout the week reaching the 80's by weekend before turning back to Fall. Wind-chill in the 30's will yield to real temps starting around Noon. The breezes are to shift to Southerlies in the evening.
The overnight news from Joyce Vance posted this morning on Civil Discourse.
The Week Ahead. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, for 11.10.25
Trump continues to try to starve Americans. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
When historians look back on this dark time, I don’t think they’ll see the end of what we value in America. More likely, they’ll see the beginning. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought, 11.9.25
We are social animals, not truth-seeking ones. - Samuel McKee, in How the Light Gets In, 11.4.25
Birthdays and such . . .
Neil Gaiman is 65 today. The fantasy/science fiction/humor author and screenwriter was born in 1960, Portchester, Hampshire, England
The Welsh actor Richard Burton was born on this day in1925, Pontrhydyfen, Wales.
And, Sesame Street, the American educational television series for children debuted today in 1969 on the National Educational Television network, an entity that became the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) a year later.
The Yes Bird
Alone flying east into the sun
not yet risen
into a welcoming sky.
We, the bird and I
share the hope of the day.
The promise of light.
I said to Roshi,
“Inside there is a yes and a no.”
He said, “Follow the yes.”
I think the bird was
following the
yes.
– jab