Winter offerings…

Sunday, January 26, 2025. It’s Sol’s day … a New Moon is hiding behind cold, cloudy skies today here in TulseyTown. Northerlies are reminding us that Winter insists on our patience.

Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift you have, the gift you were put on earth to offer to others.— after Parker Palmer.

Speaking of offerings…The blog has been encountering technical issues that interfere with my ability to send notifications via email , among other things, to some 45+ of you.  I hope to remedy the problem in the next few days.  * (see note to readers, below).   You’ll know when you get the next email note.  Thanks for your patience and continued interest in the eddies of  The Watercourse Way.

Class is back on the table now that our government appears to be in the hands of billionaires only.  — Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

After the week we’ve just lived through, we deserve some good news. There is still a rule of law out there, and there are people who care about it and will work to enforce it. — Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse. (sorry link didn’t work)

On this day in 1788, Arthur Phillip, who had sailed into what is now Sydney Cove with a shipload of convicts, hoisted the British flag and established the first permanent European settlement on the continent of Australia.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, a musical version of Gaston Leroux's melodramatic novel, opened in New York City Today in 1988 and went on to become the longest-running show in Broadway history.

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