Getting it together . . .
Wednesday, August 13, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . Sun, clouds, mid 90's are in the forecasts for TuseyTown today. The heat hammer returns tomorrow and for the next seven days before a respite is indicated.
No one has it all together all the time. No one.
Alfred Hitchcock was born today in 1899, London, England, and Fidel Castro was born in 1926, near Birán, Cuba.
New inflation data: It's worse than you think.
Living in 1984? … We must be able to trust the retelling of our history, because the truth matters and should never be feared. The story of America is our story, not just Donald Trump’s, and maybe his version, least of all. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.
Amen, sister.
Saying it out loud:
Even Trump’s attack on Washington, D.C. … has not managed to distract attention from the possibility that the president of the United States sexually assaulted children. – Heather Cox Richardson updated the distractions, posted last night in Letters From An American.
Trump “hates” Taylor Swift. He wants what she has: worshipful fans.
Seeing in the dark . . .
Tuesday, August 12, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . After overnight thunderstorms, rain chances diminish for TulseyTown today but remain into tonight. Cooler, in the upper 80's. No wind to speak of. Mixed cloud cover. A slow return to the heat tomorrow and into the weekend. If you find yourself somewhere other than TulseyTown with its cloud cover, you might get to see the Perseids meteor shower. The sky show reaches its peak on tonight through Wednesday morning.
The gift of darkness.
We forget that darkness is always present alongside the light. We know the light most fully in contrast with its opposite... There is something that can only be known by going through [that “dark night of the soul.”] … In many ways, the struggle with darkness has been the church’s constant dilemma...It does not like the shadowland of our human reality. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Meditation.
Trump's declaration of a public safety emergency in Washington, D.C., taking control of the Metropolitan Police and announcing his intent to bring the National Guard, is unique, and it’s important for us to understand what it is and what it isn’t. D.C. is not New York or Chicago. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discorse.
Heather Cox Richardson offered her perspective on Trump's power grab, in Letters From An American, posted last night.
Today is the birth date of Erwin Schrödinger. The Nobel laureate – for his contributions to physics and the fundamentals of quantum mechanics – was born in 1887, Vienna, Austria.
And, one of the founders of American cinema, Cecil B. DeMille, was born on this day in 1881, Ashfield, Massachusetts.
Night Creatures
Poetry brings light to the night creatures
who, exposed, scutter away into corners
fearful of being shown their identities.
At first blush,
silence may be about death
but it is also about peace.
Perhaps it is that poems are not so much about silence
as much as they imply to those elements of darkness
an allowance -
the silence of ourselves -
to be exposed to the light
even if there are no words.
– jab
Healing the present . . .
Monday, August 11, 2025. It's the Moon's day … now waning. A cooler day for TulseyTown with moderate Southerlies and increasing clouds.
Hope is a not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart – Vaclav Havel, quoted by Robert Reich, “Workiing for the Good,” online 9.10.25
Trump has invited Putin to a meeting in Alaska on August 15th. Let that sink in. The Russian dictator invited to U.S. soil. This in spite of Putin having been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, including the theft of Ukrainian children with the expectation that he be arrested and tried for these crimes should he step outside of Russian territory. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Climate migration hits the U.S.
An antidote to today's anxiety designed environment. – Jeff Krasno and Dan Harris, long but worthy chat session.
[Not a quick fix]
For this Interim Time:
The more faithfully you can endure here,
the more refined your heart will become
for your arrival in the new dawn.
– John O'Donohue, in To Bless the Space Between Us, Doubleday, 2008.