It's an American tune, so it's all right . . .
Monday, October 13, 2025, It's the Moon's day . . . A rainy day is in the forecasts for TulseyTown today. Moderate Easterlies bring much cooler temperatures to the afternoon in the mid 70's. Rain on/off/on into the early evening.
Today is Columbus Day. A federal holiday celebrating a tyrant. In some quarters the name is dropped and replaced as being Indigenous People's Day. There is a movement afoot to make it a permanent replacement for Columbus, relegating him to a footnote.
Paul Simon turns 84 today. The multi-awarded-laureate, singer-songwriter brought a sensibility to rock an' roll was born in 1941, Newark, New Jersey.
Something dramatic has happened over the last two weeks — as America sees more vividly than ever who Trump is, where he and his trio of lapdogs (Miller, Vought, and Vance) want to take the country, and how we’re all potential targets. – Robert Reich, The Big Reveal, online 10.12.25
No Kings Day is this coming Saturday on October 18. It is likely to be one of the biggest days of protest in American history—and, in that world of shoulds aughts, we should be a part of it. There are two locations of such events scheduled for TulseyTown. More in Bartlesville and Muskogee. Check out the map.
Fascism always runs out of “others” eventually—and when it does, it comes for its own believers, too. A MAGA superfan found out about Trump's fascism the hard way.
Trump has opened the door to a possible pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell.
An Enlightened Society – one that is truly awake, grounded in love, compassion and acceptance – is the community you’re in, right here, right now. You and your family. You and your roommate. You and your coworker. It begins with how you work with your own mind, and it starts right where you are. – Pema Chödrön
It's all right 'cause it's an American tune.
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