Long life . . .

Tuesday, February 3, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . Northerlies return to TulseyTown, so say the forecasts, bringing a cooler next two days in the 50's before turning into a ten day stretch of 70's and a preview of Spring coming attractions.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own. —Marcus Aurelius

February is Black History Month and the [Trump] administration is openly working to replace American multiculturalism with white nationalism, launching raids by federal agents to terrorize Brown and Black Americans as well as white Americans who reject MAGA ideology. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.

The world no longer trusts Christians who “love Jesus” but do not seem to love anything else...We have to trust the messenger before we can trust the message, and that seems to be Jesus’s strategy. Too often, we have substituted the messenger for the message. – Fr. Richard Rohr, “That By Which We See.” Meditations, The Center for Action and Meditation, 12.28.25.

All my mornings are Mondays. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

The prolific author James Michener was born today in 1907 Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

It's also the birthdate of Gertrude Stein. She was born in 1874, Allegheny City [now in Pittsburgh], Pa.

Nathan Lane is 69 today. The multi-laureate award actor was born in 1956, Jersey City, New Jerse.y

Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash on this day in 1959, making this day “the day the music died,”

Lives, as short as they may be, live on in unexpected ways.