Goodness speaks amid spite. . .

Sunday, October 26, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . The rain of the past few days in TulseyTown have begun to ease, as have the winds. Forecasts indicate a 50/50 chance for more showers on this cloudy day with low 60's this afternoon.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful. – Jack Cornfield

Here’s Joyce Vance's Sunday Morning Wrap-up, in Civil Discourse.

What are we doing? Heather Cox Richardson wants to know in her Letters From An American.

In other doings . . .

The Erie Canal opened today in 1825.

Hillary Clinton turns 78 today. She was born in 1947 Chicago.

Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson was born on this day in 1911 New Orleans.

Today is the 144th anniversary of the infamous gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 1881Tombstone, Arizona.

Requiem – David Whyte, Pilgrim, Many Rivers Press, 2012.

Prayer

It doesn't have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just pay attention,

then patch a few words together

and don't try to make them elaborate,

this isn't a contest

but the doorway into thanks,

and a silence in which
another voice may speak.

– Mary Oliver, “Prayer,”in Thirst, Beacon Press, 2006.