Flying like books off shelves . . .
Saturday, October 11, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . Light and variable breezes make for partly cloudy skies over TulseyTown today. Forecasts indicate a near 90º afternoon.
Today is World Migratory Bird Day.
Yesterday was the “World Day Against The Death Penalty.”
How come it is that we continue killing people to try to convince people that killing people is wrong? Mental illness is clearly a societal disease, not an individual choice. [T]he U.S. stands with a minority of countries in the world that still sentence people to death. And even within our own country, capital punishment has been losing public support for decades. Abolishing the death penalty is a long overdue action.
Surveillance pricing (the use of consumers’ personal data to set prices ) impacts what you and I purchase and nothing is outside the corporate greed system. And, FYI, it's legal in Oklahoma.
It looks more and more like Nazi Germany. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
One of the champions of our democracy, Eleanor Roosevelt, was born on this date in 1884 New York City.
In news beyond our shores, today is the birthdate of another champion of humanity, Thich Nhat Hanh. The monk, writer, and activist was born in 1926 Tha Tien, Vietnam .
“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.” – Thich Nhat Hanh.
At The River Clarion
While I sit here in a house
filled with books, ideas,
doubts, hesitations …
[….]
the river Clarion still flows
from wherever it comes from
to where it has been told to go.
– Mary Oliver, “At The River Clarion,” Evidence, Beacon Press. 2009
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