Harvesting peace . . .
Saturday, October 18, 2025 It's the Satyr's day . . . TODAY, SATURDAY, IS “NO KINGS DAY.”
More apologies for total confusion on my part. So much flotsam and jetsam in the mailbox. Come out for a No Kings event near you. I am told that in addition to the two “official” demonstrations in Tulsa, there may be popups around the city. See one, join in. Bring an umbrella. Forecasts indicate a cool day in the mid 70's along with a chance for rain. Moderate Southwesterlies are to move to Northerlies overnight as a cold front moves through bringing yet cooler Sunday. Overnight low is forecasted at 48º for our first of the Fall season.
No Kings Coffee Klatch – Robert Reich and company.
Transit Haiku
Peace, love, corn, and salt.
Mantra for the day's journey.
Sharing happiness.
Body follows mind.
Thankful world echoes, quiet.
Peaceful gathering.
– jab
Mr. Smith finds yet more friends . . .
Friday, October 17, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . .After a cloudy morning, moderate to strong Southerlies are forecasted to bring the sun to TulseyTown this afternoon along with upper 80's. Rain chances are indicated for this evening into tomorrow morning. The warm-cool Fall rollercoaster is under way.
Yesterday, I got ahead of myself thinking the NO KINGS protests were today … so I'm reposting a corrected notice :
With the No Kings protests happening Sunday at thousands of locations nationwide, this will be the third significant day of protest during the second Trump administration... If you are willing, able and available, find a protest near you and attend—behave, keep your eyes open, and be careful. Two locations are scheduled in Tulsa. One at 7st and Memorial in the center of the metro area that begins at 9a.m. and is scheduled to end around 7 p.m. The other is to be at Boulder Park from Noon to 2p.m. No Kings protests are also planned in Bartlesville, Talequah, Muskogee and Stillwater and many other locations throughout Oklahoma.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, American dramatic film, opened in theatres today in 1939. Directed by Frank Capra and starring Jimmy Stewart, it angered the political establishment but won wide acclaim from the public and received 11 Academy Award nominations.
The play and screen writer Arthur Miller (“Death of a Salesman”) was born on this day in 1915 New York City.
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926–2022) and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) shared a friendship based on solidarity with the suffering of one another’s communities. –“A Friendship for Peace,” Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.
When you love beings… not just for their intelligence – and other ephemerical but discernable qualites – but for what those beings have in their very depths, you love them equally: they are entireties. What is surprising is not that we love them all, but rather that we may find what is worthwhile – Friendship: a profound mutual confidence between people, and the joy of knowing that others exist.
Luna Moths . . . No Kings
Thursday, October 16, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . and forecasts for TulseyTown indicate increasing clouds this afternoon, brought by moderate Southerlies and mid 80's. A warm weekend ahead with a brief cooling on Sunday.
With the No Kings protests happening tomorrow at thousands of locations nationwide, this will be the third significant day of protest during the second Trump administration. The first were the Hands Off! protests of April 5 which drew an estimated three to five million attendees, and the second were the June 14 No Kings protests, which drew an estimated four to six million marchers. Both were historic in terms of their size, and both were important as physical manifestations of the continued vibrancy of democratic action in the United States of America. If you are willing, able and available, find a protest near you and attend—behave, keep your eyes open, and be careful. Two locations are scheduled in Tulsa. One at 7st and Memorial I the center of the metro area that began at 8a.m. and should end around Noon. The other is to be at Boulder Park.
An earlier post had a link that didn't work. Here's one that does.
As if Trump's manic antics weren't enough to protest, there's a long list of specifics flowing from his administration. Among them that our voting rights are under an attack that is about to be sustained by the Supreme Court. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Same age, years younger. – Robert Reich on his and Trump's aging, online 10.16.25
Injury is the invitation to live from the inside out . . .Until we were injured we were under the delusion that we were secure from humiliation, and that, in the spirit of that word, we didn’t need a well-developed sense of humour; until we were injured we didn’t really accept that we were just as amusingly and not so amusingly vulnerable as everyone else. – David Whyte, Injury, Consolations II, Many Rivers Press, 2025.
The Luna Moth Has No Mouth
…
Maybe we have it all wrong and the moths
are trying to save us susceptible humans from
this prison of codependence: ego enabling ego.
Luna moths, our diminutive heroes on a fool's
errand, without mouths, live only a week or so,
yet spend that precious time
delivering that same unheeded message
dont waste your life on those who
will never love the way you do.
– Rigoberto González , from “The Luna Moth Has No Mouth,” published in Poetry, October, 2025.