Never say “never . . .”

Wednesday, June 4, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . Easy Northerlies brought cool rainshowers to my dawn mailbox visit here in TulseyTown. Forecasts indicate the rain showers are to yield to overcast skies during the afternoon hours with a cool mid 70's. The weathefeather says we're entering into our Summer pattern of +/- 20% rain chances every other day for the next ten days. As I write, the rains have ceased and the birds have begun their morning conversations.

Today in 1919, Congress approved the Nineteenth Amendment, assuring the right to vote for women in the U.S. after 160 years of demonstrations.

Joyce Vance is celebrating three years in Civil Discourse.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the news, remember, that’s a feature, not a bug. He needs all of that noise to distract enough people for enough time because Trump is attempting to assume the role of dictator or autocrat, call it what you like. – Joyce Vance in Civil Discourse.

How to stand your ground in the face of the gaslighting and hosing of disinformational change.

Beyone sticky, Ukrain's spider webs look lethal. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.

And in 1896, Henry Ford completed, and successfully tested, his first experimental automobile, the quadracycle.

Call of the Way

I hear a voice you cannot hear,
Which says I must not stay;
I see a hand you cannot see,
Which beckons me away. --Thomas Tickell (1685 – 1740)

If he who is organized by the Divine for Spiritual communion

refuses and buries his talent in the Earth,

even though he should want natural bread,

shame and confusion of face will pursue him

throughout life and into eternity – William Blake (1757 – 1827)

. . . you're going to be miserable

if you don't do what you are called to do – Kris Krisofferson (1936-2024)

– jab