Burning down the house . . .
Thursday, October 23, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . and forecasts for TulseyTown indicate increasing rain chances, slight today and likely overnight and into tomorrow when heavy rains are predicted. It looks to be a wet weekend. Until the clouds move in on moderate Easterlies, sunny skies prevail with near 80º this afternoon.
The easiest way to navigate The Way: recognize our shared humanity. Works best in silence.
Trump is tearing down your house. – Robert Reich, The Billionaire Ballroom, online 10.23.25
Today is the birth date of Johnny Carson. He was born in 1925, Corning, Iowa.
Corning. Iowa. Parlaying that into a silent synchronistic joke may have powered his career.
me: Johnny, where were you born?
Johnny: Corning.
me: You’re kidding.
Johnny: It’s in Iowa.
Maria Should Have Known Better
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To fall in love is craziness, but to break a heart is cruetly
Carrying on through love's upheavals? That takes a rare warrior.
You are a courtyard that could hold up an elephant;
I'm a crumbline wall of sand.
How can I resurrect it now –
this love I've had in all my past lives?
– Mirabai, “Maria Should Have Known Better,” translated from the Braj Bhasha by Chloe Martinez, in Poetry, November 2025.
“The closer you contemplate beginnings and endings, the more you begin to see that they are impossible.” – Norman Fischer
Freedom dreams . . .
Wednesday, October 22, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . and easy Southwesterlies, sunshine and low 80's are in the forecasts for TulseyTown.
Freedom is desire; but felt in reverse. – David Whyte, Freedom, in Consolations II, Many Rivers Press. 2025
On this day in 1962 President John F. Kennedy alerted Americans to what became known as the Cuban missile crisis.
Settling down a bit from the Saturday protests. What can we do now? – Robert Reich, online, 10.21.25
Speaking of freedom as desire: Today is the birth date of Timothy Leary.
The French actress Catherine Deneuve turns 82 today.She, too, was born on this date in 1943 Paris, France.
And it's Franz Liszt's birthdate. One of the most prolific and influential musicians of the romantic era, he was born in1811, Doborján, kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire [now Raiding, Austria.
Cathedrals
Out of sorrows, sadness and prayers
these ancient alters with water and wind
blown sand were carved by whispers of
peoples whose history and geology
now overlooks the silented stories
that healed the sick and broken,
bonded lovers, birthed children, and
made peace among blood enemies.
Slaves dreamed here of freedom
and within themselves
found the courage
of the wind.
– jab Freedom to love in a dream.
Experience it … tell about it.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . Forecasts indicate moderate Northerlies and a cool mid 70's afternoon for TulseyTown. 80's tomorrow and Thursday turning to full-on-Fall Friday as the roller coaster eases to its end. The weatherfeather indicates good rain chances Friday and Saturday. The Moon remains new until tomorrow.
Yesterday, Heather Cox Richardson reflected on the “No King's” demonstrations in her Letters From An American.
Frank Lloyd Wright 's masterpiece – The Guggenheim Museum – opened on this day in 1959 New York City.
The end of an era. MTV is shutting down its music channels.
Today is the birth date of Dizzy Gillespie. The trumpet virtuoso, improviser, bandleader, composer, educator and singer was born in 1917 Cheraw, South Carolina.
The U.S.S. Constitution was launched on this day in 1797 at Hartt's shipyard in the North End of Boston
The founder of the Nobel Prize, Alfred Nobel was born today in 1833, Stockholm, Sweden.
The prolific writer, Ursula K. Le Guin, was born on this day in 1929 Berkeley, California.
“I am going to be rather hard-nosed and say that if you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you’re writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn’t flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work.” – Ursula Le Guin.
Today is the birthdate of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Author of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” he was born in 1772 Devonshire, England.
How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country. – The “Argument” (preface) to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,