Dancing naked at Halloween
It's Odin's day … Fall's full transition is under way here in TulseyTown. Moderate Southerlies will bring strong thunderstorms to the area tonight. Dawn tomorrow will greet us with Northerly chill, with a week’s worth of rains ahead.
Getting it right is more important than getting it fast. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, 10.30.2024.
It's Fred Friendly's birth date. An outspoken advocate for fairness and ethics in journalism the pioneering broadcast journalist and former President of CBS News, he was born in 1915 New York City.
The poet Ezra Pound was born on this date in 1885 Hailey, Idaho, and grew up near Philadelphia.
Orson Welles' infamous "War of the Worlds" Halloween broadcast was aired by CBS Radio on the evening of today's date in 1938. The program caused great alarm—though reports of a nationwide panic were unfounded—as some listeners feared a genuine invasion from Mars . It was not the “mass hysteria” reaction later hyped by print media.
Fall
Trees are throwing all their clothes to the ground,
dancing Halloween naked in honor
of a new moon.
– jab
Such a ruckus
It's Tiw's day … and the Fall transition continue with strong Southerlies today in TulseyTown.
The future of democracy is literally in our hands as faith in our institutions has crumbled in the face of successful attacks from the right and liberal failure to address change.
Attempts to attack the election are already under way. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.
The only way we will birth a multiracial democracy is if we hold up a vision of a future that leaves no one behind, not even our worst opponents. – activist and author Valarie Kaur writing in today's Meditations at the Center for Action and Contemplation.
Donald Trump is the reincarnation of Foghorn Leghorn. – Heather Cox Richardson.
Squawk
– after Mary Oliver
Such a ruckus,
the geese overhead this morning
leading a chorus with the jays
mockingbird cardinals
sparrows and one lone hawk
in a singular squawk.
Rumi said, for the soul there is no proof.
But seems to me the geese know
as much as we do about the whole business.
– jab
A “good life” in the modern world? Possibly . . .
It's the Moon's day . . . The transition into full Fall continues with record heat today with strong Southerlies up to 45 mph here in TulseyTown continuing overnight and into tomorrow when temps begin to fall. Lots of leaves to leave their home for their new one as cover for the winter ground.
The most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. – David Foster Wallace
This is the week to reach out to everyone you know and urge them to vote for Kamala Harris because our collective future depends on it. It's just that simple. Yes, it gets old hearing people say this is the most important election of our lifetimes, but it is true, and the threat is very real. – Joyce Vance, “The Week Ahead,” Civil Discourse, 10/27/24.
The very best explanation of “Facism” I've ever read. From Heather Cox Richardson's Letters From An American.
An Amazonian walkout is hitting The Washington Post after owner Jeff Bezos, who also owns Amazon, announced the icon journal would not be endorsing any presidential candidate. Subscribers are bailing, staff are resigning and they're all going public on social media platforms. A similar backlash for the same reasons has hit The Los Angeles Times. The Philadelphia Inquirer was quoted by Heather Cox Richardson in her Letters from An American: “in a strange way the papers did perform a public service: showing American voters what life under a dictator would feel like.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom took to the social media platform X to cite “some facts you probably won't get from Fox” about the present state of our nation. Things are much better than you might think.
Julia Roberts turns 57 today. She was born in 1967, Smyrna, Georgia; Bill Gates turns 69. He was born in 1955, Seattle, Washington; and British philospher John Locke was born on this day in 1632, Wrington, Somerset, England.
Why and when were the ethical guts stripped out of liberalism? And can liberalism be salvaged to free us from the death knells surrounding the institution of democratic freedom and give us a way to “a good life in the modern world?” – Alexandre Lefebvre
The trees. It’s in the trees!
I've taken VanGogh's path to an active
melancholy rebelling against the fork at yesterday's road
signpost that read “This way to stagnant despair.”
While there are clouds increasing
and the weatherfeather sees more rain methinks
these strong winds blow hope and aspiration into the leaves
of those trees.
— jab