The new world . . .
Monday, September 8, 2025, It's the Moon's day . . . and the full Corn Moon begins to wane toward the Harvest, a month away. Moderate Southerlies are forecasted to bring a near repeat of yesterday's conditions to TulseyTown today. Mixed sun and clouds with low 80's. A week's worth of 90's begins Thursday.
It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. – John O'donohue.
The Week Ahead from Joyce Vance in Civil Discourse today.
Trump is panicking and exhibiting a new level of unhinged. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
The American Dictator – Joyce Vance in Civil Discourse posted yesterday.
Enduring structures of “power over,” like patriarchy, white supremacy, and unfettered capitalism, have limited most individuals’ power for so long that it’s difficult to imagine another way. Only very gradually does human consciousness come to a selfless use of power, the sharing of power, or even [its] benevolent use. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Meditation.
The Constitution needs defending. Calls for an Article V convention are gaining ground and must be stopped. I don't want to presume you don't know about this threat to our democracy. But if this is an issue about which you have questions, check out the issues at Common Cause.
Today is the birth date of Peter Sellers. The British comedic/character actor and Academy Award laureate was born in 1925, Southsea, England.
Bernie Sanders turns 84 today. The Senator from Vermont was born in 1941, Brooklyn, New York.
And. Composer Antonín Dvořák was born on this date in 1841, Nelahozeves, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now in Czech Republic].
"You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind" — Tsoknyi Rinpoche, in Open Heart, Open Mind, Harmony Publishers, 2012.
In every moment, a new world.
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