The Peace Prize and peaches . . .
Friday, October 10, 2025. It's Freya's day . . . Moderate Southerlies bring bright sunshine and upper 80's to TulseyTown. Forecasts indicate Summer-like heat throughout the week ahead with a significant cooling settling in a week from this Sunday.
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded. And it wasn't Trump.
The next U.S. President? While there could be more candidates, at present – according to Robert Reich – there are three democrat governors who fill that bill. Each is taking strong stands against Trump – online 10.10.25
Materialistic values of Euro-American modernity are very different from ...Indigenous values…. Generally speaking, Indians are not materialistic. Materialism and consumerism are values imposed on Native Americans. The Cherokee concept of redistribution of wealth [has always been] at odds with the individualism of [Western capitalism]. – Meditation, The Center for Action and Mediation, 10.10.25
Santa Muerte and Self Denial – Sophie Strand, Make Me Good Soil, 10.10.25
Yesterday was John Prine's birthdate.
Imagine . . .
Thursday, October 9, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . and the weatherfeather indicates a lovely Fall day for TulseyTown. Moderate Southeasterlies, partly cloudy skies and low 80's.
“Silence is like an ocean, speech is like a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk to the river, listen to the ocean.” – attributed to Rumi
An economy based on the impossibility of ever expanding growth leads us into nightmare scenarios...I want to live in a society where the currency of exchange is gratitude and the infinitely renewable resource of kindness, which multiplies every time it is shared rather than depreciating with use…. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Rich in Good Will,” Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 10.9025
Today is the birthdate of John Lennon, born in Liverpool, England, in 1940.
Jackson Browne is 77 today. He was born in 1948, Heidelberg, Germany.
And it's the 61st birthday of filmmaker and screenwriter Guillermo del Toro, born in 1964 Guadalajara, Mexico.
Would CBS allow Edward R. Murrow's air time editorials? – Robert Reich doesn't think so. Online 10.9.25
No fly zone . . .
Wednesday, October 8, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . and forecasts for TulseyTown indicate moderate Northerlies becoming light as clouds begin to part later. Mid 70's. Low 80's tomorrow as this taste of Fall yields to a warming toward a hot weekend and a warm week before returning.
Matt Damon is 55 today. The Academy Award laureate, actor, screenwriter, and producer was born in 1970, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Science fiction writer Frank Herbert (Dune) was born on this date in 1920 Tacoma, Washington.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to another Cal Berkeley professor and two other internationalists.
The power being wielded by unelected officials in the Trump administration echoes the conditions of the U.S. government a century ago which generated the stock market crash and the Great Depression. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Flying to the end of the shutdown. A credible pundit's prediction coming true. – Robert Reich, online today.
Kite Without a String
A poem at its least can be
a song of praise for its contravention
an ode – to science, mathematics, symbols,
categories, compartmentalism.
But, a poem is a kite without a string –
flying above all that would insist
on extending fear from some wherever
to some other place claiming freedom.
A kite without a string
is a conversation about Truth
trusting no one but the wind.
– jab