Thoughts like weather, change.
Sunday, October 12, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . Summer continues its re-run in TulseyTown. Forecasts indicate low 90's on moderate to strong Southerlies and mixed clouds.
The thought is the thinker. There is no one behind it. The thought is thinking itself. It comes uninvited. You will see that when there is a strong detachment from the thought process, thoughts don’t last long. – Joseph Goldstein, “These Are Not Your Thoughts,” Tricycle, January 2025, reposted 10.11.25.
Jane Goodall gave an interview purposefully to be released after her death twelve days ago. There are a number of short clips on the internet, but the complete version is on Netflix. You'll have to access it there.
… only in the 20th century [have we begun] to teach about corporate sin, institutionalized evil, systemic violence, and structural racism. These very words are new to most people, especially ones who benefit from such illusions. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Systems of Wealth, in Meditation, The Center for Action and Contemplation
If Whatsisface got nailed for lying, he wouldn’t even change his tie. He has turned it into an art form. Every morning we read the Times and ask ourselves, “How can the man not be amazed at his own naked bravado? Does the man not have a pair of pants?” – Garrison Keillor, Your Civics Teacher Would Speak Now, The Column, 10.10.25.
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.