True love has its ways . . .
Sunday, September 7, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . Moderate Easterlies bring a lovely mix of sun and clouds with low 80's afternoon in Tulsey Town today, so says the weatherfeather which also predicts the last of the season's 90's this week. As is the custom: We shall see. The moon is full – the “blood” corn moon – and will be eclipsed South of the Equator.
Why do people keep asking to see
God's identity papers
when the darkness opening into morning
is more than enough?
– Mary Oliver, “I Wake Close To Morning,” from Felcity, Penguin Press. 2015.
To be an Atheist … is to me personally almost an essential of religious life. – Jane Ellison Harrison, “The Forgotten Visionary,” in Maria Popova's Marginalian, 9.7.25.
Today is the birthday of Grandma Moses – born Anna Robertson – in 1860, Greenwich, New York. Her paintings of American rural folk life in the late 19th and early 20th Century gained international recognition.
And it’s the birthdate of film director, playwright, and author Elia Kazan, born in 1909 Istanbul, Turkey.
Robert Reich's Sunday Thought: He's loosing bigly.
Singer and songwriter "Buddy" Holly was born today in 1936 Lubbock, Texas. His untimely death prompted the anthem American Pie with its refrain “the day the music died.”
Moving Kharma . . .
Saturday, September 6, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . Forecasters indicate moderate Northerlies continuing into TulseyTown, bringing some clouds and a cool mid 70's day.
Here. A constant call in a moving world. – Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “Offering Our Presence”
at Meditations, The Center for Action and Meditation.
A teacher speaks. – Robert Reich, online, 9.5.25
A well insulated attic won't help you if your foundation collapses. – Joyce Vance explains “the shadow docket” of the Supreme Court.
Efforts to protect the coming elections must begin now. – from the Brennan Center For Justice. 8.27.25
Novelist Alice Sebold turns 62 today. The author of The Lovely Bones was born in 1963 Madison, Wisconsin.
Moving Kharma
Today, my friend George provided more anecdotal
affirmation for my research into a theory of "moving kharma."
Def: the cost of moving above and beyond
the price of tickets, gasoline, truck rental, shoes, etc.
regardless of destination--next door, across town, around the world--
broken glass, flat tire, dropped transmission, a/c on the fritz,
smashed thumb, bumped head/elbow/knee, broken heel, ripped seam
doesn't matter. . . payment not commensurate with time nor distance.
Though always disruptive to best laid plans,
when aware of being amidst "moving kharma" Doc B's Rx is: pause,
remember to breathe, resume and repeat when necessary.
Moving kharma is a principle of universal synchronicity
and is a candidate for a corollary to Murphy’s Law.
The principle in brief:
moving with intent (regardless of motive) from one location to another
is contrary to the order sustaining the mover,
especially when non-conscious elements are in play.
Hence, the Rx of pause, breathe, resume.
Distinguished from Murphy,
MovingKharma seems to possess an element of debt
which may prove compounding if not recognized.
My friend George is preparing for an overseas vacation,
leaving day after tomorrow. Yesterday,
he sold a very expensive duplicate camera system
to help finance the journey. Today, he sends me a note:
The check bounced and the compressor in his a/c system
stopped working. Same a/c system that went on the fritz
same time last year just before departure on a journey
to yet another foreign land.
– jab
Genuinely outside the box , , ,
Friday, September 5, 2025. It's Frigg's (Freya) day . . . and moderate to strong Northerlies are forecasted to bring cooler conditions in the low 70's and maintain cloudy skies over TulseyTown today. Likely morning rain for some is to depart before noon.
A genuine emptiness, a pure silence is not feasible — either conceptually or in fact. If only because [art] exist in a world furnished with many other things … Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech (in many instances, of complaint or indictment) and an element in a dialogue. – Susan Sontag, “The Aesthetic of Silence” in Maria Popova's Marginalian,
We remember Crazy Horse, the chief of the Oglala band of Lakota, born (surmised) on this day in 1842 near present-day, Rapid City, South Dakota.
It's the birthdate of several artists who broke convention and gave us new perceptions, concepts and meaning.
Jack Kerouac's novel, On The Road, was published today in 1957.
John Cage was born on this date. The avant-garde composer who managed to step outside the bounds of conventional and its concepts of meaningful sound and created new concepts and meaning, was born in 1912 Los Angeles, California.
Werner Herzog turns 83 today. The German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author was born in 1942, Munich, Germany. He almost single handedly reinvented German cinema. Get acquainted, if you haven't, by watching Aguirre, the Wrath of God, if you can find it.
And It's the birthday of Freddie Mercury. The singer/song writer and front man for the band Queen, was born in 1946, Stone Town, Zanzibar [now in Tanzania.