Flying like books off shelves . . .

Saturday, October 11, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . Light and variable breezes make for partly cloudy skies over TulseyTown today. Forecasts indicate a near 90º afternoon.

Today is World Migratory Bird Day.

Yesterday was the “World Day Against The Death Penalty.”

How come it is that we continue killing people to try to convince people that killing people is wrong? Mental illness is clearly a societal disease, not an individual choice. [T]he U.S. stands with a minority of countries in the world that still sentence people to death. And even within our own country, capital punishment has been losing public support for decades. Abolishing the death penalty is a long overdue action.

Surveillance pricing (the use of consumers’ personal data to set prices ) impacts what you and I purchase and nothing is outside the corporate greed system. And, FYI, it's legal in Oklahoma.

It looks more and more like Nazi Germany. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

One of the champions of our democracy, Eleanor Roosevelt, was born on this date in 1884 New York City.

In news beyond our shores, today is the birthdate of another champion of humanity, Thich Nhat Hanh. The monk, writer, and activist was born in 1926 Tha Tien, Vietnam .

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.” – Thich Nhat Hanh.

At The River Clarion

While I sit here in a house

filled with books, ideas,

doubts, hesitations …

[….]

the river Clarion still flows

from wherever it comes from

to where it has been told to go.

– Mary Oliver, “At The River Clarion,” Evidence, Beacon Press. 2009