Pretty bubbles in the air . . .
Tuesday, October 14, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . and easy Southerlies are forecasted to bring a cloud mix to the skies over TulseyTown with upper 80's.
If it’s true we are alone, we are alone together, the way blades of grass are alone, but exist as a field. – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Live in a way that the Earth will be grateful for us.
There are moments when the world feels increasingly troubled, when change comes quickly, and when the ground feels less certain. In these times, it helps to remember that we can still choose to be a steady light. It radiates when you show up—for the possibility of a wiser, world. We see it in the quiet strength that ripples outward when people come together in kindness, and courage.
Rather than it being a “hate-America” rally – that's the label Trump et al have attempted to label it – Saturday’s rally is an opportunity for all of us who love America to express our determination that our nation’s ideals not be crushed by the Trump regime.
The week ahead. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Trump’s office issued an official proclamation declaring yesterday, October 13, “Columbus Day.” The proclamation completely misunderstands the fifteenth-century world of expanding European maritime routes that entirely reworked world trade—including trade in human beings—and the role of Italian mariner Christopher Columbus, who worked for Spain’s monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, in that expansion...There is a difference between history and commemoration. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Forever bursting bubbles. – Robert Reich, Beware the Oligarch's Two Bubbles, online today 10.04.25
The Orchard
I have dreamed of accomplishment
I have fed ambition.
I have traded nights of sleep
for a length of work.
…
all winds blow cold at last
and the leaves vanish
in the great, black
packet of time,
in the great, black
packet of ambition,
and the ripeness of the apple
is its downfall.
– Mary Oliver, from “The Orchard,” in Red Bird, Beacon Press, 2008.