Fooled by darkness . . .

Monday, October 27, 2025. It's the Moon's day . . . waxing in the darkness. Easy breezes maintain cloud cover over TulseyTown today, with upper 60’s this afternoon. Colder with Northerlies and more rain likely tomorrow.

It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. – Wendell Berry

We have to let go of the belief that what we can see and touch and name is more real and more relevant than what’s not visible. – Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, “Signs of the Unseen” Tricycle, Winter 2024.

Only about 5% of the universe is made up of visible or "normal" matter—this includes everything we can see, such as stars, planets, and galaxies. The remaining 95% consists of dark matter (about 27%) and dark energy (about 68%), which are both invisible and detected only through their gravitational and cosmological effects – Astronomy, September, 2025.

Three poets share today's birthdate . . .

The poet Dylan Thomas was born on this day in 1914 Swansea, Wales; Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 Boston, Massachusetts; and Katherine Harris Bradley, was born in 1846 Birmingham, England. She wrote under the pseudonym Michael Field.

Winning in the face of terrible times. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought, posted 10.26.25

The Week Ahead – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.

Joyce Vance and Heather Cox Richardson join online this afternoon at 4pm Eastern.

Embracing the uncertainty makes physicians better. – Zoe Cunniffe, “Learning Not To Know,” in Aeon, 10.23.25

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live...I don’t think I can learn from a wild animal how to live in particular..but I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical sense and the dignity of living without bias or motive. – Annie Dillard, “What A Weasel Knows,” in Maria Popova's Marginalian, 10.14.25

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one!" – Marcus Aurelius

Are we gonna be fooled again?