Revolution weather . . .
Friday, August 29, 2025. It's Freya's day . . . and clouds are in the forecasts for TulseyTown for most of the day, as are light breezes and upper 70's.
Once we surrender, earth surrounds and claims us. We find ourselves standing in a river of swirling eddies. – Michael Meade, “Earthly Love,” The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, HarperCollins, 1993.
Real revolution has always been a part of America's sociopolitical life. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American, posted yesterday.
The sentence I wish I had written this morning: [T]here’s no way I’ll retire as long as a raving sociopath sits in the Oval Office and destroys everything I believe in. – Robert Reich, “Why I Can't Retire,” online today. Thanks Robert.
Today is the birthday of British philosopher John Locke. Author of the “the social contract” was born in 1632 Wrington, Somerset, England.
Its the birthdate of Richard Attenborough, The English actor, director, and producer was born in 1923, Cambridge, England.
Animal scientist and memoirist Temple Grandin turns 78 today. She was born in 1947 Boston.
And, jazz saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker was born today in 1920 Kansas City, Kansas.
Saying goodbye to this year's Summertime.
A canary sang of strange fruit . . .
Thursday, August 28, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . and parts of TulseyTown are likely to hear his hammer as forecasts indicate Easterlies bringing thunderstorms for everyone. Low 70's
“Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently until the song that is your life falls into your cupped hands and you recognize and greet it.”
—Martha Postlewaite
Rita Dove turns 73 today. The poet, essayist, university professor, Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S.Poet Laureat was born in 1952, Akron, Ohio.
And, It's the birthdate of Robertson Davies. The novelist,playwright, essayist, humorist (The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks),and another major influencer of Yers Trooley was born in 1913 Thamesville, Ontario.
ICE actions bring back memories of America's dark history. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Today in 1963, 250,000 people gathered for a “March on Washington, and heard the now famous “I Have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
After the tragic assassinations of both Martin Luther King, Jr. and US Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-MA) earlier in the year, America was on a powder keg. At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in July 1968, the powder keg erupted.
Canary
Billie Holiday’s burned voice
had as many shadows as lights,
a mournful candelabra against a sleek piano,
the gardenia her signature under that ruined face...
Fact is, the invention of women under siege
has been to sharpen love in the service of myth.
If you can’t be free, be a mystery.
– Rita Dove
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.