Relentless weather across the Empire

It's Tew's Day . . . and thunderstorms are once again in the forecasts for Okieland and the mid-West all the way to the Great Lakes.

The morning mailbox was full of politicality . . .

It is time for Democrats to take on Trump's lies. Republicans won’t...there needs to be national direction and focus on this issue to make sure it breaks through. This election is one where democracy is literally at stake and Trump isn’t shy about telling us so. – Joyce Vance

The next time you overhear that Biden hasn't done anything … don't be silent. Since we’re not going to remake or replace the media between now and November, it’s up to us to do their work, one brother-in-law, one cousin, one neighbor, one housemate or workmate at a time.

And, in case you missed it, in a rare interview, Pope Francis spoke out (on CBS) against closed minds and a "suicidal" opposition to reform.

Of the Empire

We will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the many...

and they will say also that our politics was no more
than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of
the heart, and that the heart, in those days,
was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

– Mary Oliver, “Of the Empire,” Red Bird, Beacon Press, 2008