The disappearance of the bagel man . . .

Monday, June 30, 2025. It's the Moon's day . . . A cool start to a warm day in TulseyTown. Forecasts indicate moderate Southerlies and a slight chance for a thunderstorm this afternoon and evening. Low 90's with heat indices in the mid-upper 90's. Northerlies are to visit tomorrow.

Don't fault the poem remaining unfinished.

The bird of imagination flies where it likes.

Be silent. The queen will finish the poem. – Rumi (adapted)

Speaking of finishing. It took Margaret Mitchell ten years to complete her novel Gone With the Wind. It was published on this day in 1936.

Among four political stories people should know about, according to Heather Cox Richardson in her Letters From An American, is one staggering admission by Trump that he allowed the Iranians to bomb the U.S. base in Quatar as retaliation for the U.S. strikes on their nuclear sites.

The week ahead. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.

NOW, the National Organization for Women was founded on this day 49 years ago.

In each of our lives at various points along the way, we find ourselve in the Fog of Not Knowing – a period of transition, a liminal space – when the way, the path, the plan, or the project is not yet clear...Regardless of how you arrive in this place...This period “in between” – whether for minutes, months, even years – is to be respected and honored; it is fertile and full of promise...If you can neet this “void” (it isn't) without grasping for some convenient way out, what you discover will be beyond your expectations and imagination...At the edge if Not Knowing is the beginning of the extraordinary. – Victoria Labame, Risk Forward, Hay House, 2021.

Reading the Times

Unhealthy particulates were found throughout the home
—”The Toxic Homes of Los Angeles,” June 24, 2025

So many things to be afraid of: the space junk of Damocles

orbiting in the troposphere, that worrisome spot

on my friend’s pancreas, the disappearance of the bagel man

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– Kim Addonizio, “Reading the Times,” Rattle (poets respond) online, 6.30.25