Manifesto for the emotional season . . .

It's the Moon's day … Northerlies are forecasted to bring the first “hard” freeze – 29º – by tomorrow morning here in TulseyTown.

We've entered the emotional season. For the next two months, many of us will feel the ups and downs of joy and sorrow, thankfulness and gratitude for what seems to be a “great mystery.”

Trump and Project 2025. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

These times do not have to be the final chapter in the American experiment. Already, as Trump prepares his next administration, there is work for us to do. – Joyce Vance, “The Week Ahead,” in Civil Discourse.

Martha Nussbaum provides an intelligent manifesto for including the storytelling arts in moral philosophy....the complex cognitive structure of the emotions has a narrative form — that is, the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what we feel shape our emotional and ethical reality. Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature’s reasoning itself. — Martha Nussbaum.

More about Dr. Nussbaum's academic interdisciplinary perspective is online at Univ of Chicago faculty website.