On a Glass mountain…

Saturday, January 31, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . . A really cold day is in the forecasts along with sunny skies and calm winds. The high this afternoon in TulsyTown is projected to be only in the 20's. A warmer Sunday and Monday, with a weeks worth of unseasonably warm conditons starting Thursday.

Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk and author of over 50 books, was born in 1915 Prades, France.

Can there be any doubt where wars come from and where peace comes from, when the children of this world, excluding God from their peace conferences, only manage to bring about greater and greater wars the more they talk about peace?” – Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain, Hartcort Brace. 1948

Why indict Don Lemon? – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

The [Trump] administration is appealing to the MAGA racist and Christian nationalist base by demonstrating that it is willing to violate the Constitution to impose MAGA’s ideology on the nation …. That's what the arrests of Don Lemon and several demonstrators is all about. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American, posted last night for this morning.

Birthdays

The prolific and controversial author Norman Mailer born in 1923 Long Branch, New Jersey.

Musicologist Alan Lomax was born in 1915 Austin, Texas. He discovered Lead Belly, and introduced America to Woody Guthrie among many.

And, composer Philip Glass turns 89 today. He was born in 1937, Baltimore, Maryland.

On a Glass mountain.