Melania: “Thar she blows…”

It's Thor's day . . . a sunny, cool Fall day in TulseyTown . . .

“The blues is the truth.”

If you understand – things are just as they are. If you do not understand – things are just as they are. – Zen proverb.

It sounds oxymoronic to call someone an “elected dictator,” but the American people are about to find out it is not. Trump's voters and supporters did this to themselves. Many of them will soon feel the negative consequences and painful results of their decision to turn their backs on democracy and freedom very soon. Any public voice who suggests that everything is going to be fine and that panic or despair are unwarranted should not be taken seriously. That is projection and self-soothing behavior. That said, there is hope. – Chauncey DeVega, Salon, 11/13/24.

For many people, the rule of law has become a laughing stock, a joke. But hear me out on this—abandoning the rule of law is not the path forward for us. Insisting on it, demanding that it still apply, is. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, 11.12.24.

Trump is testing whether the Senate will be loyal to the Constitution or whether it will bend the knee. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, 11.14.24

Even Melania is walking away, according to Heather Cox Richardson's post yesterday in her blog Letters From An American.

And, finally, Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick was published today in 1851.

We don’t know what life will bring, so it is what we bring to life that matters.

mitakuye oyasin – Lakota

Yo-Ho-Hum, an' a botl'-o-rum

It's Odin's day . . . the rain this morning in TulseyTown has ceased at this hour (9:45a.m.) and the calm is forecasted to be replaced by strong Westerlies this afternoon... exactly as predicted by the Mares' Tails yesterday (of old farmer's weather forecasts), 24 hours ahead of the rains.

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them. – Ursula Le Guin, in her trilogy Earthsea, Parnassus Press, 1968.

As uncertainty and groundlessness increase, as we lose control of external circumstances, we find ourselves with our backs to the wall. One reponse is to cower in the corner, hoping that chaos and suffering will just go away. But in our heart of hearts we know that will never happen...The alternative is to use this opportunity to start waking up. Which is the more sane approach to our life? – Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart, Shambhala, 2016.

It's the 174th anniverary of Robert Louis Stevenson's birth. He was born on this date in 1850 Edinburgh, Scotland.

The Disney animation Fantasia turns 84 today.

The World Wide Web turns 34 years old today. The proposal for a new global system of interlinked documents on the Internet was published on this date in 1990.

The Buddhist scriptures talk about resting or abiding in recollection. The best English translation of this is mindfulness. “Recollection” in this case does not mean dwelling on the past but being in the present. That flow that takes place—you could be with it. The interconnectedness of all things and nothingness is being collected as your essence in each and every and this present and continuing moment – after Chögyam Trungpa

As the Stone Rolls Gathering

It never felt right

but I did it anyway –

hurt your feelings

disappointing both of us.

There are some things

I would have different

should the karmic wheel

turn out to be real.

— JAB

Singing in the morning dark . . .

It’s Tiw’s (Frigg’s) Day . . . the sun is shining this morning in TulseyTown.

Yesterday was the birth date of two major novelists: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, born in 1821 Moscow and Kurt Vonnegut, born in 1922 Indianapolis, Indiana

And, it was the birthday of comedian Jonathan Winters, born in 1925 Bellbrook, Ohio

You can’t be willing to fight for democracy only when it’s easy. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

Inside the growing '4B’ movement empowering women after Trump's win. The '4B' urges women to say "no" to everything relating to men: sex, marriage, childbirth, and dating until full rights are restored. – Morgan Stephens

Who is in control at Mar-a-Lago? – Heather Cox Richardson.

A dark future for our military on Veteran's Day. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.

The moon’s reflection on water appears without obstruction and seems to shine very brightly, yet it is simply the appearance of something that does not exist. There is no such thing as a moon in the water. Likewise, when one recognizes that thoughts have no true existence, one recognizes awareness – Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

I Worried

I worried a lot.

...Finally I saw that worrying

had come to nothing.

And gave it up. And took my old body

and went out into the morning

and sang.

– Mary Oliver, “I Worried,” from Swan, Beacon Press, 2010