Out of darkness, light . . .
Wednesday, October 29, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . He's swinging his hammer into high winds for Okieland today. Forecasts indicate Northerlies into the 30+ mph range, easing somewhat by afternoon. A cold, cloudy day with wind chill in the 40's and a slight chance for rain.
Be patient with yourself, just as you are.
Today is the anniversary of Black Tuesday, which happened in 1929 — the worst stock market crash in the history of the United States. Black Tuesday was the beginning of the Great Depression. By 1932, 90% of the stock market value had been erased, more than 100,000 businesses had failed and 13 million people had lost their jobs
Trump’s allies are openly discussing how to keep him in power beyond the limits of the Constitution...For years, Bannon has used provocation to test how far the MAGA movement can go without consequence. Now he’s saying the quiet part plainly: they believe Trump should rule without limits, and they’re laying the groundwork for a Trump 3rd term. – in an email post from People for the American Way 10.26.25
Every American who shares the values for which American troops have been fighting and dying for almost 250 years, should join us on the side of democracy and against Trump’s emerging police state. – Robert Reich, online 10.29.25
The ACLU and Common Cause are joining the resistance.
How many truckloads does it take? – Garrison Keillor, The Column, 10.08.25
Re-build a bridge. From the sky. Using drones and flying 3-D printers. Carnegie Mellon thinks so.
Truth must often arrive obliquely. Directness is overrated when the soul is in motion. Mythic modes of perception don’t obey the laws of logic...you will understand when your heart recognizes what your mind can’t name. If this has any ring of truth for you, consider a Halloween costume as an oracle or fortune-teller. – Pisces (that would be yers trooley) forecast for the coming week by Rob Brezsney, Free Will Astrology, 10.28.2025. For other imaginative Halloween suggestions, check out your sun sign at Brezsney's site.
Out Of Darkness, Light
[...]
In East Indian tradition there is a story
that in the beginning of creation
the god-head lived inside our consciousness
until our ego hijacked it for behaviors
which disturbed the gods so much
they took it from us. Debate then
became where to hide it so humans
wouldn't find it. Infinite potential
rejected the bottom of the seas well as
the heavens. Then Brahman said
“Let's hide it inside humans since they
will never think to look for it there.”
The silence that followed filled with light.
Eyes opening, the world and you and I
will have changed in ways
neither you nor I may yet speak of.
– jab
Old School . . .
Tuesday, October 28, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . Strong Northerlies and rain are in the forecasts for TulseyTown today and tonight with a cool afternoon in the upper 50's.
Collapsollogy: A reading list. – Sophie Strand, Make Me Good Soil, 10.27.2025
Robert Reich raises an interesting question: Is Elon worth it? 10.28.25
Speaking of billionaires: Microsoft founder Bill Gates turns 70 today. He was born in 1955 Seattle, Washington.
It's John Locke's birthdate. The English philosopher and inspirer of both the European Enlightenment and the Constitution of the United States was born on this day in 1632, Wrington, Somerset, England.
Two years after Locke was born, Harvard University was founded in 1636 Cambridge, Massachusetts, about 16 years after Pilgrim's landed near Plymouth Rock.
The Statue of Liberty was officially dedicated on this day in 1886 New York harbor.
Kite
...a poem is a kite without a string –
flying above all that would insist
on extending fear from some wherever
to some other place claiming freedom.
– jab
Fooled by darkness . . .
Monday, October 27, 2025. It's the Moon's day . . . waxing in the darkness. Easy breezes maintain cloud cover over TulseyTown today, with upper 60’s this afternoon. Colder with Northerlies and more rain likely tomorrow.
It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. – Wendell Berry
We have to let go of the belief that what we can see and touch and name is more real and more relevant than what’s not visible. – Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, “Signs of the Unseen” Tricycle, Winter 2024.
Only about 5% of the universe is made up of visible or "normal" matter—this includes everything we can see, such as stars, planets, and galaxies. The remaining 95% consists of dark matter (about 27%) and dark energy (about 68%), which are both invisible and detected only through their gravitational and cosmological effects – Astronomy, September, 2025.
Three poets share today's birthdate . . .
The poet Dylan Thomas was born on this day in 1914 Swansea, Wales; Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 Boston, Massachusetts; and Katherine Harris Bradley, was born in 1846 Birmingham, England. She wrote under the pseudonym Michael Field.
Winning in the face of terrible times. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought, posted 10.26.25
The Week Ahead – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.
Joyce Vance and Heather Cox Richardson join online this afternoon at 4pm Eastern.
Embracing the uncertainty makes physicians better. – Zoe Cunniffe, “Learning Not To Know,” in Aeon, 10.23.25
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live...I don’t think I can learn from a wild animal how to live in particular..but I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical sense and the dignity of living without bias or motive. – Annie Dillard, “What A Weasel Knows,” in Maria Popova's Marginalian, 10.14.25
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one!" – Marcus Aurelius
Are we gonna be fooled again?