Healing the present . . .

Monday, August 11, 2025. It's the Moon's day … now waning. A cooler day for TulseyTown with moderate Southerlies and increasing clouds.

Hope is a not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart – Vaclav Havel, quoted by Robert Reich, “Workiing for the Good,” online 9.10.25

Trump has invited Putin to a meeting in Alaska on August 15th. Let that sink in. The Russian dictator invited to U.S. soil. This in spite of Putin having been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, including the theft of Ukrainian children with the expectation that he be arrested and tried for these crimes should he step outside of Russian territory. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

Climate migration hits the U.S.

An antidote to today's anxiety designed environment. – Jeff Krasno and Dan Harris, long but worthy chat session.

[Not a quick fix]

For this Interim Time:

The more faithfully you can endure here,

the more refined your heart will become

for your arrival in the new dawn.

– John O'Donohue, in To Bless the Space Between Us, Doubleday, 2008.