Imagine never meeting anyone you didn't like . . .

Tuesday, November 4, 2025. It's Tiw's day … Strong Southerlies are in the forecast for TulseyTown , with sunny skies, and upper 70's this afternoon.

There is no time but this instant – between the words, letters, your breaths. The past is truly past, the future not yet. You can drag your past into your mind if you wish, and imagine the future as well, but you do so only in the moment by moment existence. We live in this duality, but can turn our minds to the present moment between breaths. A few of those moments each day will help you find the peace you seek.

You may believe yourself out of harmony with life and its eternal Now; but you cannot be, for you are life and exist Now—otherwise you would not be here. Hence the infinite Tao is something which you can neither escape by flight nor catch by pursuit; there is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it. – Alan Watts, Become What You Are, Shambhala Press, 1995, 2003.

Today is the birthday of Will Rogers. The humorist, rodeo, stage and movie star was born in 1879 Indian Territory, Northeastern Oklahoma (1879). He made politicians his regular target in his day, and was namesake of my highschool in Tulsa. He once said he had never met anyone he didn't like. For more about Will Rogers...

What will we learn from today's elections? – Robert Rech, Office Hours, 11.4.25

The sun is thermonuclear . . .

Saturday, November 1, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . Easy Northerlies, sunny skies and upper 50's are in the forecasts for TulseyTown today.

“Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.” —Roald Dahl, Matilda

Today is Dia De Los Muretos. and All Saints Day

On this day in 1952 the United States tested the first hydrogen bomb, 3,000 miles west of Hawaii, in the Marshall Islands. It was a “conservative test” of a then theoretic thermonuclear device.

Today in 1509 the public first saw Michelangelo’s frescoes painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Novelist Stephen Crane was born on this day in 1871 Newark, New Jersey.

The Washington Post is hosting “A Global Women's Summit” (on November 20) that actually looks to be worth the time. Check it out. Pass it on.

In an age where there is much talk about “being yourself,” I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else. – Thomas Merton, “Day of a Stranger,” The Hudson Review, Volume 20, Number 2, 1967

These Mornings

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If I could ask for
any gift to be given
to us all,
over and over
it would simply be

[…]
– Richard Wehrman, (complete poem) “These Mornings,” online 11.1.25

The between times . . .

Friday, October 31, 2025. It's Freya's (Frigg's) day . . . Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate a day with almost no breeze, sun, a few clouds and mid 60's.

We can’t enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention. – Diane Ackerman

Today is Halloween... marking the beginning of many liminal or threshold festivals, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld are said to be “thin,” and “blurred,” making contact with spirits more likely – especially those of our ancestors. All Hallows Eve and Day, Winter Nights, Dia Des Las Mortes (Day of the Dead) – all celebrate the half-way between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice and have their roots in the Celt tradition of Samhain (Sauin).

Richard Rohr's Meditation “On the Fullness of Time,” reflected on the tradition in a post today.

The poet John Keats was born on this day in 1795 Finsbury Pavement, near London.

Ode On A Grecian Urn

[…]

When old age shall this generation waste,

Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe

Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

– John Keats, “Ode On A Grecian Urn.” This poem is in the public domain. John Keats died at the age of 26.