Facts, fiction, and faith . . .

Tuesday, December 16, 2025. It's Tiws' day . . . Moderate Southerlies and a warming trend are in the forecasts for TulseyTown for the next ten days. Afternoons with a mix of sun and clouds and near 60's.

Reality is always falling apart. In this fleeting situation, the only thing that makes sense is for us to reach out to one another. – Pema Chödrön

Trump as viewed from North of the border. – Robert Reich, The True Catastrophe, online 12.16.25

A prominent preservationist group is suing President Donald Trump over his construction of a massive ballroom, arguing that he sidestepped legally required reviews.

Heather Cox Richardson provided details on the lawsuit. In Letters From An American

The week ahead. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

Three Brit authors share birthdays today:

Jane Austen was born in 1775 Hampshire, England; Noël Coward was born in 1899, Teddington, near London; and Arthur C. Clarke was born in 1917, Minehead, Somerset.

Another science fiction author – an American – Philip K. Dick was born on this day in 1928, Chicago, Illinois.

What happens to the leaves after

they turn red and golden and fall?

… Do you think there is any

personal heaven for any of us?

… If I had another life

I would want to spend it

all on some unstinting happiness.

… I wouldn't mind being a rose

in a field of roses.

Fear has not yet occurred to them,

nor ambition. Reason

they have not yet thought of.

Neither do they ask how long

they must be roses, and then what,

Or any other foolish question.

– Mary Oliver, reading (audio) “Roses Late Summer,” in House of Light, Beacon Press, 1990.