Getting somewhere . . .

It's Sol's day … a taste of Winter headed toward TulseyTown in the coming week.

The holiday season is one that viruses and bacteria love due to the changing weather. Cool, to warm, to cold, and back again repeatedly along with drier air and exposure to more crowds makes us vulnerable. So, get your vaccines, regardless of what RFK believes.

Today in 1859 Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published.

It's the birth date of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The impressionist painter was born in 1864, Albi, France.

Project 2025 is a wrap. It’s locked, loaded, and ready to go. If you believe it’s about to disappear or that Trump won’t use any of it, I have some swampland in Florida for you. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.

People apparently believe Trump only when they want to. Contingency plans are flooding Republican-connected lobbying firms with calls desperate for their exemptions. If you think that’s a recipe for corruption and influence peddling, well of course it is. What they shouldn’t be is surprised. – Daily Kos, 11.20.24

High Desert, New Mexico

… Night blackens like a violin

and bright flour falls from the kitchens of heaven.

… Not everything is broken.

… Abandon your despair, you who enter here forsaken.

The wnd is saying something. Listen.

– Kim Addonizio, Now Were Getting Somewhere, W.W. Norton, 2021,