One can dream . . .
Saturday, August 30, 2025. It's the Satyr's day … A perfectly calm morning in my TulseyTown neighborhood.
Today is the birthday of one of the world's wealthiest investors, Warren_Buffett. He turns 95 today, celebrating in the same town where he was born in 1930 Omaha, Nebraska.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on this day. The author of Frankenstein, considered by many as the first science fiction book, was born in 1797, London, England. My postman reminded me that Frankenstein was not the monster, but the doctor who created him, and that the original 1818 text was a philosophical exploration of humanity’s relationship with creation.
Stillness. No leaf moves even at the top of the 60 foot Sycamore that all but engulfs the house and large corner lot across the way from my small cottage. A random leaf just moved by a one lone honking Canadian going only he knows where. A rare stillness to start another cloudy day with rain chances. Eventually, easy Southeasterlies are forecasted to bring upper 70's and a bit of flutter in the leaves preparing for a golden Fall.
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