A better deal . . .
Saturday, November 8, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . TulseyTown's easy morning breezes are forecasted to shift to Moderate Northerlies as a cold front moves through the area. The afternoon 70's are to drop into the 40's overnight and remain there Sunday until falling into a hard freeze Monday morning. Wind chills Sunday are forecasted to be in the 30's,
“The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.” — André Gide (1869–1951), “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality.”
Today is the birthdate of Margaret Mitchell. The author of Gone with the Wind was born in 1900 Atlanta, Georgia.
Dorothy Day – the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement – was born on this date in 1897 Brooklyn, New York.
One Farmer's Almanac gone, The Old Farmer's Almanac remains.
The repercussions from Tuesday’s vote, in which Democratic candidates were victorious across the country, continue to echo. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American, 11.7.25
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president on this day in 1932. In the heart of the “Great Depression, he offered Americans “a new deal” they overwhelmingly could not refuse.
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