Uncaging the truth . . .

Wednesday, September 17, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . and forecasts indicate the end of the year's really hot days for TulseyTown. Upper 90's indices with a mix of sun, clouds and slight rain chances this afternoon. 80's tomorrow, and for the rest of the week on our way to the Fall Equinox.

Meditation is really about what happens when we stop meditating. A big part of why we practice mindfulness in a quiet room away from distractions is so we can draw on that skill when we've re-entered the noisy world.

Today is Constitution Day in the United States, because it was on this day in 1787, at the old State House in Philadelphia, that the final draft of the Constitution was signed.

Of course, he won't admit it, but his troubles just keep multiplying. Even his base is crumbling around its edges. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American. 

Novelist Ken Kesey was born on this date in La Junta, Colorado, in 1935

And poet William Carlos Williams was born today in 1883 Rutherford, New Jersey,

The Fool's Song

I tried to put a bird in a cage.
O fool that I am!
For the bird was Truth.
Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put
Truth in a cage!

And when I had the bird in the cage,
O fool that I am!
Why, it broke my pretty cage.
Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put
Truth in a cage!

And when the bird was flown from the cage,
O fool that I am!
Why, I had nor bird nor cage.
Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put
Truth in a cage!
Heigh-ho! Truth in a cage.

– William Carlos Williams. This poem is in the public domain.