How dare we not . . .
Monday, January 5, 2026. It's the Moon's day . . . Strong Southerlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown, bringing sunny skies and 70º this afternoon. The 70's are indicated to stay with us until turning cooler with good rain chances Thursday.
Spend some time today resting in the open space of wonder. Look at the world with childlike wonder. Try to see people and things as if for the very first time, like a one-year-old who has not yet learned the names of anything. When memory, judgment, and language loosen their grip, what is left?
Today marks the Twelfth Night. It’s the official end of the holiday season, which begins with All Hallows’ Eve. Though the origin of the Twelfth Night celebration dates back to the Roman Saturnalia, most of the traditional observances of the holiday that have survived date back to medieval England. It's all but absent in the U.S. except, perhaps, for attending a performance of Shakespeare's play or watching it streaming. The Church of England, Mother Church of the Anglican Communion, celebrates Twelfth Night on the 5th and refers to the night before Epiphany, the day when the nativity story tells us that the wise men visited the infant Jesus.
The creator of “The Method” for actors, Konstantin Stanislavsky, was born in 1863, Moscow, Russia .
Actors sharing today's birthdate: Robert Duvall is 95 today, born in 1931 San Diego, California; Bradley Cooper turns 51, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Diane Keaton was born in 1946, Los Angeles, California – she died this past October.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio took the administration’s message about its strikes on Venezuela to the Sunday talk shows. It did not go well. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Tomorrow marks the most shameful day in American history. – Robert Reich, 1.5.26
The week ahead. Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse, 1.5.26
The question isn’t, dare I say love, but how dare I not. – Bob Hicok, “The Naivete and Potential Embarrassment of Proposing an Empathy-Shaped Economy While Living in a K-Shaped Economy,” Rattle: Poets Respond, online 1.4.26