Forward, into the past . . .

Monday, January 12, 2026. It's the Moon's day . . . Today and tomorrow, TulseyTown's weather will be flirting with 70º afternoons before the cold returns Wednesday. Roller-coaster Northerlies and Southerlies are to mix clouds and sun.

We never experience the past or future directly. If all we ever experience is the present, then time has never existed as a line from past to future. What we call a “moment” is not a slice of time but an open, timeless presence.

Building the back story. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American

The author of Call of the Wild, Jack London, was born on this day in 1876 San Francisco.

It's John Hancock's birthday. The first to sign the Declaration of Independence was born in 1737,Braintree, now in Quincy, Massachusetts.

If an earthquake struck and the walls rattled and windows broke, you wouldn’t go on grilling hamburgers, you’d want to see what a cataclysm looks like. Turn on your TV, or, if you dare: open your door. – Garrison Keillor, “Watching the World Fall Apart,” The Column, 1.9.26

Post hoc, ergo, propter hoc

Nobody knows what's going on anymore

Because

Nobody knows what's going on anymore.

– jab (probably in Dubuque)