Big Bird in the trees . . .
Sunday, October 5, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . and two more days of near 90's are in the TulseyTown forecasts including bright sunshine and moderate Southeasterlies.
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) went on the air today in 1970.
Kate Winslet celebrates her 50th today. The multi award lareate actor was born in1975, Reading, Berkshire, England.
The national trauma. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought, online 10.5.25.
Religion cannot work from a calculator without losing its very method, mind, foundation, and source. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditation, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 10.5.25.
The trees! In the trees!
– for Vincent...and Kate
What moulting is to birds, humans experience
hard times. This period of moulting can
last a good while, even beyond
recoverable.
Not to be done in public, this
rarely lends to cheerful entertainment
or socially appropriate
smiles.
It is possible to emerge renewed
but between then and then it's rather
a matter of making oneself
scarce.
I've taken VanGogh's path to an active
melancholy rebelling against the fork at yesterday's road
signpost that read “This way to stagnant
despair.”
While there may be clouds this morning
and the weatherfeather always sees more rain
methinks East winds blow hope and aspiration
into browning leaves.
– jab
Vampire at the cosmic bar . . .
Saturday, October 4, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . Forecasts indicate moderate Southeasterlies to continue warming TulseyTown today, in the upper 80's. The ten-day promises dry cooler conditions.
The list of creatives' birthdate notices in today’s mailbox was a long one …
The prolific and often humorist writer Roy Blount Jr. turns 84 today. He was born in 1941 Indianapolis.
Actor Susan Sarandon is 79 today. The AcademyAward laureate was born in 1946 New York City.
Also on the list: Buster Keaton and Charlton Heston,
And, the author of Interview With A Vampire, Anne Rice, was born in 1941, New Orleans, Louisian.
Speaking of which, Rice's vampire saga has been adapted to film and presently into a critically acclaimed tv series (by AMC) and now running on Netflix, if you are so inclined.
And, On this day in 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite inaugurating the space age, and heightened Cold War competition between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.
Bukowski at the Cosmo Bar
Mother, Father Mahayana,
how do I know if I am
enlightened?
Such an outrageous question
might find an appropriate answer
from someone like Bukowski
muttering from some cosmic bar
on a star a billion miles from here:
“Dude,” he'd say,
“if you have to ask, you ain't there.”
– jab
The wondermoment . . .
Friday, October 3, 2025. It's Freya's (Frigg's) day...and Summer continues over TulseyTown. Hot Southerlies near if not at 90º for the afternoon.
[L]ike clouds passing across the sky, our thoughts, names, and stories come and go. But the open sky of awareness remains—vast, untouched, unbroken. When we discover that we are that sky—timeless and boundless—life itself becomes lighter, clearer, and infinitely more intimate. We are home now, and everyone is welcome. – Santiago Santai Jiménez
In an historic first, a woman has become The Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Anglican Church.
Connectedness can’t be ordered up, laid out, or unraveled. Its fire runs through an infinite network of points of mutual contact and exchange that are beyond explanation and must simply be accepted with respect and gratitude. – Susan Murphy
Novelist Gore Vidal was born on this day in 1925 West Point, New York.
Robert Reich has an idea about how the shutdown will end.
The Wondermoment
– prompted by Robert Bly in the excellent anthology The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart.
Some men, I among them at that proverbial
once upon a time, wonder about love.
Confronted by the fact of our patriarchally received nature
but aware there must be a better way, we wonder.
The poet Robert Bly speaks of a man
who learns to love “the guiding woman.”
His heart is cultivated that way,
the way the patriarchy yields.
– jab