Snowflakes, unite!
Friday, November 7, 2025. It's Freya's day . . . Moderate Northerlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown today, bringing a cooling trend. Sunny skies and mid 70's this afternoon and Saturday are indicated. Downright cold Sunday with a hard freeze Monday morning.
If you can awaken inside the familiar and discover it strange, you need never to leave home.
Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser, Braided Creek, A Conversation in Poetry, Copper Canyon Press, 2003.
Writer Albert Camus was born on this day in 1913 Mondovi, Algeria.
“O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.” – Camus, L’été, first published 1942.
It’s the birthdate of Marie Curie. She was born in 1867, Warsaw, Congress Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire.
Billy Graham was also born on this day in 1918, Charlotte, North Carolina.
What should count as “news” when reporting about Trump? – Robert Reich, online, 11.6.25
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani delivered more than an acceptance/victory speech. Mamdani called for New Yorkers to “leave mediocrity in our past,” and for Democrats to “dare to be great.” When Mamdani said, “New York, this power, it’s yours,” and told New Yorkers, “[t]his city belongs to you,” millions of Americans heard a reminder that they, too, are powerful and that the government of the United States of America belongs to them. Heather Cox Richardson reflected in her Letters From An American.
Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake. – Thomas Frey
And, Joni Mitchell is 82 today. The music experimentalist and maybe the best songwriter ever was born November 7, 1943, Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada.
Waking the sleeping giant. . .
Thursday, November 6, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . The moon is full – the Beaver Moon is a supermoon and the brightest of the year. Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate an unseasonably warm afternoon – near 80º – as moderate Southerlies return with sunshine and a few clouds. Cooler conditions return tomorrow. The season's first hard freeze is forecasted for Sunday night. https://www.almanac.com/full-moon-november.
From coast to coast, Democrats ran up the score—and ran ahead of the polls.
The sleeping giant awakens. – Robert Reich, “the history of today,” online 11.5.25
It's the the 73rd birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham. The author of “The Hours” was born in Cincinnati in 1952.
The Scottish actress Tilda Swinton turned 65 yesterday. She was born in 1960, London, England
Also yesterday the Pulitzer Prize laureate, playwright and actor Sam Shepard was born in 1943, Fort Sheridan, near Highland Park, Illinois,
Ask yourself: Do I want to cut myself off from my basic goodness? Remind yourself that your fundamental nature is unconditionally open and free. – Pema Chödrön
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