Could a bird guide us home?
Monday, November 10, 2025. It's the Moon's day … Easy Northerlies and sunny skies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown. After a hard morning freeze, temperatures will be much like yesterday in the mid 40's, rising throughout the week reaching the 80's by weekend before turning back to Fall. Wind-chill in the 30's will yield to real temps starting around Noon. The breezes are to shift to Southerlies in the evening.
The overnight news from Joyce Vance posted this morning on Civil Discourse.
The Week Ahead. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, for 11.10.25
Trump continues to try to starve Americans. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
When historians look back on this dark time, I don’t think they’ll see the end of what we value in America. More likely, they’ll see the beginning. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought, 11.9.25
We are social animals, not truth-seeking ones. - Samuel McKee, in How the Light Gets In, 11.4.25
Birthdays and such . . .
Neil Gaiman is 65 today. The fantasy/science fiction/humor author and screenwriter was born in 1960, Portchester, Hampshire, England
The Welsh actor Richard Burton was born on this day in1925, Pontrhydyfen, Wales.
And, Sesame Street, the American educational television series for children debuted today in 1969 on the National Educational Television network, an entity that became the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) a year later.
The Yes Bird
Alone flying east into the sun
not yet risen
into a welcoming sky.
We, the bird and I
share the hope of the day.
The promise of light.
I said to Roshi,
“Inside there is a yes and a no.”
He said, “Follow the yes.”
I think the bird was
following the
yes.
– jab
Quite a woman . . .
Sunday, November 9, 2025. It's Sol's day … Forecasts for Tulsey Town indicate Strong Northerlies with wind chills in the 30's throughout the day, with real temperatures in the mid 40's. A cloudy morning is to give way to generally sunny skies for the afternoon. A hard freeze is predicted by tomorrow morning.
The Monarch's are migrating.
Believer, follower, or no, it's in the popular culture : The planet Mercury turns retrograde today (until the 29th). Generally speaking – so it is said – be especially careful with agreements and contracts, and ensure clear communication. You may need to revise things once Mercury is direct again. Murphy's Law may be present.
Today is the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht: “The night of broken glass” in 1938 throughout Nazi Germany.
On this day in 1989, the leader of the East German Communist Party made a quiet announcement that the Berlin Wall would be opened for “private trips abroad.” Within days, millions of East Germans flooded into West Berlin, and citizens began to pull the wall to pieces.
Belief in God is on the rise among young people in the West. As many seek meaning beyond digital life and consumer culture, old theologies are in vogue. But Iris Murdoch warned against seeing religious faith as the only route to a spiritual life...her answer was to reintroduce transcendence without reintroducing theism. Against both nihilism and moral relativism, she insists on the existence of the Good—The Good, though impersonal, demands humility, patience, and unselfing—the virtues once cultivated by religion. – Miles Leeson, “Transcendence without theism,” at iai news, 10.20.2025
In his teachings, and in the Sermon on the Mount in particular, Yeshua, by putting the picture in the largest possible frame, called into question all smaller frames and invited his hearers into a radical transformation of consciousness. Many were not ready for it—nor are many of us today. – Richard Rohr, Meditation, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 11.02.25
What we missed in Sunday School. – Elias Chacour, in Meditation, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 11.7.25
Two poets birthdays: The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in 1914, Swansea, Wales, and Anne Sexton was born today in 1928 Newton, Massachusetts.
Her Kind
I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night
…
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.
– Anne Sexton, “Her Kind,” From The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1981.
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.