The book never written . . .
Saturday, July 12, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . The weatherfeather indicates cloudy, rainy weekend in store for TulseyTown .Early morning rains are forecasted to pause for a few hours before resuming this afternoon. Mid 80's and moderate Southerlies are indicated.
We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest without courage. – Maya Angelou
Today is the birth date for Pablo Neruda. The Nobel Prize laureate for literature and among the most important, respected and read poets of the 20th Century, was born in 1904 Parral, Chile.
Henry David Thoreau was born today in 1817 Concord, Massachusetts.
And, Julius Caesar, born on the 12th or 13th of July in 100 B.C. Rome.
Where does the line between enforcing U.S. law and utter inhumanity lie? We don’t need to carefully parse its precise placement in order to understand that what this administration is doing has crossed it, is utterly reprehensible, and will be condemned by history, just as other governments that rounded up people and persecuted them are. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
A president acts as a magnet, drawing into the highest levels of his administration people who not only share his values but amplify them...Trump is more extreme this time because he’s attracted people around him who are also extreme and pushing him to new levels of malevolence. – Robert Reich, online 7/11/25.
The facts about the Texas flash floods, from Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American
The Nobel Peace Prize? Trump wants one.
What you love – without the grasping desire to possess it – will find you.
The Night, The Porch
...baring oneself
to the wind is feeling the ungraspable somewhere close by.
Trees can sway or be still. Day or night can be what they wish.
[…]
There is no end to what we can learn. The book out there
Tells us as much, and was never written with us in mind.
Mark Strand, “The Night, The Porch,” Rattle, Tribute to Pulitzer Prize winners. Summer 2002.
The best ode yet . .
Friday, July 11, 2025 . It's Freya's (Frigg's) day … Another hot Summer day with moderate to strong Southerlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown. Fair skies with a few clouds and heat indices in the low 100's are indicated for the afternoon.
[A]lthough the Napoleons and Putins of the world will rise to power again and again over the centuries, they will also fall, because there is something in us more powerful as long as we continue placing freedom, justice, and universal happiness at the center of our commitment to life, even as we live through nightmares. – Maria Popova, “The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”,” The Marginalian,
Maybe Trump's Achilles heel: the red counties depending on the government they hate.
The 2025 Supreme Court term in review from The Brennan Center for Justice. May be the most important discussion you'll witness until free speech disappears from our rights. And . . . this is not hyperbole. Take the time.
To Kill a Mockingbird was published on this date in 1960.
The English-born American novelist and short-story Pulitzer laureate, among many other literary awards, Jhumpa Lahiri turns 58 today. She was born in 1967, London, England,
Today is also the birthday of Yul Brynner. The multi-laureate stag/ film/television actor/director was born in 1920 Vladivostok, Russia. His most notable role was that of the king in Rodgers and Hammerstein The King and I on Broadway and film.
And, there's a new Superman in town . . . maybe the best yet.
Ain't no satisfaction . . .
Thursday, July 10, 2025 It's Thor's day . . . Another hot day for TulseyTown. Moderate Southerles pushing clouds around with 100+ indices. The full “Buck Moon” begins to rise around 3:30 this afternoon
The Way cannot be told. We can – as Joseph Campbell summarized – “follow your bliss” or resist it. The former brings unimagined reward, the latter to the insanities with which we are most familiar.
“Democrats would worry less about a child’s right to pick his pronouns and more about children who do not know what a pronoun is.” – Rahm Emanuel, likely running for the democratic party 2028 presidential nomination.
One implication for those who are concerned that Trump will cancel elections in 2026 is to understand he can’t afford to do so. It would force him to shed the appearance of legitimacy that he’s gone to so much trouble to maintain. He will undoubtedly try to influence the outcome of those elections, but elections are held by the states, not by the centralized federal government. Start now by avoiding the rush and making sure you have identification that proves who you are and your American citizenship—even if your state doesn’t require this now. A U.S. Passport or a Real ID. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
The author of the longest novel ever – In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust was born on this day in 1871, Auteuil, near Paris, France,
And today in 1965 The Rolling Stones finally got some satisfaction landing at #1 on the Billboard charts after six earlier appearances.