Always standing in the middle . . .

Sunday, July 13, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . Forecasts indicate ten hot Summer days ahead for TulseyTown with easy Southerlies and the usual 15% chance for storminess. One exception: Today looks to be cooler with easy Northerlies and mid 80's.

If you try to “fit in,” eventually you'll disappear.

The West is in conflict with itself...defining what our civilization is and what it stands for today divides vast constituencies who hold conflicting visions of the good life. How did we arrive at this gaping cleavage where a common worldview once prevailed, and what does it portend? – Nathan Gardels, “Civilizational Nationalism,” in Noēma Magazine, online, 11 July 2025.

Being a warrior against tyranny enables us to be on the right side of history. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought, online 7/13/25.

You’re always standing in the middle of a sacred circle, and that’s your whole life ... Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’re always in the middle of the universe and the circle is always around you. Everyone who walks up to you has entered that sacred space, and it’s not an accident. Whatever comes into the space is there to teach you. – Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape, Shambhala Publications, 2018.

Tears we need to cry: Sometimes being deeply sad is a functional, not a dysfunctional response.

– Marianne Williamson, on Transform (online) 7/12/25.