True love has its ways . . .
Sunday, September 7, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . Moderate Easterlies bring a lovely mix of sun and clouds with low 80's afternoon in Tulsey Town today, so says the weatherfeather which also predicts the last of the season's 90's this week. As is the custom: We shall see. The moon is full – the “blood” corn moon – and will be eclipsed South of the Equator.
Why do people keep asking to see
God's identity papers
when the darkness opening into morning
is more than enough?
– Mary Oliver, “I Wake Close To Morning,” from Felcity, Penguin Press. 2015.
To be an Atheist … is to me personally almost an essential of religious life. – Jane Ellison Harrison, “The Forgotten Visionary,” in Maria Popova's Marginalian, 9.7.25.
Today is the birthday of Grandma Moses – born Anna Robertson – in 1860, Greenwich, New York. Her paintings of American rural folk life in the late 19th and early 20th Century gained international recognition.
And it’s the birthdate of film director, playwright, and author Elia Kazan, born in 1909 Istanbul, Turkey.
Robert Reich's Sunday Thought: He's loosing bigly.
Singer and songwriter "Buddy" Holly was born today in 1936 Lubbock, Texas. His untimely death prompted the anthem American Pie with its refrain “the day the music died.”