The bright light of confusion . .

Thursday, September 4, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . A cool, cloudy start to the day is forecasted to become sunny and warm in TulseyTown this afternoon. Moderate Easterlies are to clear the skies and bring mid 80's

Gratitude … brings us into presence, and our full presence is perhaps the best offering we can make to our world. – Joanna Macy

Novelist Richard Wright was born on this day in 1908 on a farm near Roxie, Mississippi.

Beyoncé turns 44 today. The multiple Grammy award singer-songwriter and actress was born in 1981, Houston, Texas.

Suddenly last Tuesday a bright light shone. [“That's a joke, son”] After that three hour sycophantic love fest by his cabinet, telecast and youtubed, only three questions remained: Why would the United States need a Congress? What role does the judiciary fill? Both seem more like unnecessary decorations than useful assets. And why would the country need to elect a new boss in 2028? What purpose would it serve? – Garrison Keillor, The Column, 9.3.25

Confusion causes our questions and prompts us to wake up. – Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in Crazy Wisdom, Shambhala Press, 2001. From this perspective, confusion is a gift, a teacher on The Way, a prompt for our gratitude.

Preface to an ego, Part One

We are born into this world

not unlike the pilot in The Little Prince,

crashing into what might as well be

a wholly barren landscape

for all the light-blasted confusion,

and utterly beyond knowableness.

No wonder our first response is to protest.

Vigorously.

Then to grasp onto the comforting softness

of a much needed food source

until we are sated for the first of many times.

Of many times. Sated enough that we might

begin to look around curiously

at the glitter and sparkling destractions

which will become a habit

and the source of objects

we insist on trying to fit into

mouths, noses, ears, eyes.

All the while learning about

what will become masturbation

and playing with our toes.

—jab

Falling awake to the sound of the wild. . .

Wednesday, September 3, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . and Westerlies, bright sunshine and upper 80's are in the forecasts for TulsyTown today. The late Summer 20% chance for rain returns tonight. and for the rest of the week. Meaning, of course, 70% of us are likely to remain dry.

You walk in peace who travel along The Way love shows. There is no error along this Way.

Worth considering ahead of time. Could Trump put federal troops at the polling stations in 2026? – beginning today, Joyce Vance explores the possibilities and obstacles in Civil Discourse posted 9.2.25.

It's that time of year: Code Switchin': School Drop-Offs & Fitting In – Jeff Krasno, online 9.2.25

More “woke” from another perspective: Buddhism is about waking up—not falling asleep—but it might be more accurate in this case to speak of falling awake, since Buddhist awakening is the paradigm of total, unreserved, and artless self-surrender. – C. W. Huntington Jr., “A Pathless Land”

The Sound of the Wild

I hear that voice / which belongs / to no one / except /

the hidden world / from which it flows / like a river ...

– David Whyte, “The Sound of the Wild,” in River Flow, Many Rivers Press. 2012.

Not probable. Possible.

Tuesday, September 2, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . and moderate Northerlies bring not quite 50/50 rain chances to TulseyTown, so say the forecasts. We may get a few sun rays between rain drops this afternoon.

Today in 1945 Japan formally surrendered to the United States, marking the end of World War II.

Politicians claim that the solution to our work problems is ‘more jobs’. But simply increasing the number of bad jobs won’t help us avoid the problems of work. What we need, it seems, is not more work, but good work. But what exactly is good work? Kant’s definition of art as skilled labour will direct us to the intrinsic features of work that we ought to include in our conception of “good jobs.”

“Woke” is a myth. – Robert Reich, “The 'woke' myth,” online 9.2.25

What does it mean to begin a journey knowing we will never live to experience arrival or homecoming? – Sophie Strand, “Microchimerism & Migration,” on Make Me Good Soil, 9.2.25

Once in a while, turn off your logical brain that says 1 + 1 = 2. Open up your mind to the possibility that 1 + 1 can equal 48, a Mercedes-Benz, an apple pie, a blue horse. Not the fact. The possibility. – Natalie Goldberg