An ocean of ripples . . .
Wednesday, August 27, 2025. It's Odin's day … Forecasts indicate cool, rains for TulseyTown today and tomorrow. Moderate Southeasterlies and low 70's.
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail," that's according to Theodore Dreiser whose birth was today in 1871 Terre Haute, Indiana.
The Osage Nation and ecologist author of “Blue Highways,” William Least Heat-Moon turns 86 today. He was born in 1939 Kansas City, Missouri.
And its the birthdate of our 36th President, Lyndon B. Johnson. LBJ, as he was called, was born today in 1908, Gillespie county, Texas,
No Bill! and that's good news from Joyce Vance in today's Civil Discourse.
This week: Celebrating 60 years of The Grateful Dead. They left an ocean of ripples.
The Well of Stars
… it takes a little while to get there,
… step by step,
the way
the poets through time
generously gave themselves
to us,
walking like pilgrims
through doubt,
combining their fear,
their fierceness and their faith...
– David Whyte, “The Well of Stars,” in The House of Belonging, Many Rivers Press, 1997.
Cribbing from Rilke . . .
Tuesday, August 26, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . The weatherfeather indicates a cloudy day for TulseyTown. Moderate Easterlies, low 80's and a slight rain chance. More rain indicated tomorrow and Thursday. The Fall transition continues.
Have patience with everything that is unsolved in your heart and try to cherish the questions themselves. – Rilke
More than 70 years of struggle by the suffragist movement ended today in 1920 as the 19th Amendment was formally incorporated into the U.S. Constitution. It proclaims "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."
Today is the birth date of Peggy Guggenheim. The modern art collector and memoirist was born in 1898 New York City. “Fight all day, sex all night...” – attributed (anon.) to Peggy Guggenheim.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? – Mary Oliver
… no one cares or bothers
to read anymore those soto voce
below-radar flights from the empirical.
“So why do you write poems?”
the stewardess asked. “I guess
it's because every angel is terrible,
still though, alas, I daily invoke these
almost deadly birds of the soul.”
And I cribbed that from Rilke.
— Jim Harrison, from The Theory and Practice of Rivers, first ed. Winn Books, 1985; reissued by Copper Canyon Press, 2025. This selection from “The Essential Poems,” Copper Canyon Press, 2019.
Worried crazy in the shadow . . .
Monday, August 25, 2025. It's the Moon's day . . . and moderate Northerlies bring rain to TulseyTown, on/off/on into tonight, flushing away what's left of the heat dome of the Summer, making way for a lovely Fall to come. This morning's 70º is the forecasted high for the day.
The happiest life is a busy solitude. – Voltaire
“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem
Today is the birthdate of Leonard Bernstein, The conductor and composer was born in 1918 Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Other birthdays today
Sean Connery, in 1930 Edinburg, Scotland.
Tim Burton is 67 today. 1958 Burbank, California.
and Elvis Costello turns 71, born on this day in 1954 London, England.
There's tension in the White House, according to Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From American, posted this morning.
Joyce Vance anticipates The Week Ahead in Civil Discourse.
Living in the Shadow of the American Dream – Robert Reich, “Voices of Americans,” posted today.
Husband and wife Elvis Costello and Diana Krall, worry themselves Crazy with Willie Nelson.