Control freak years . . .

Thursday, November 13, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . Moderate Southerlies bring a mix of sun and clouds to TulseyTown. Warm 80's in the afternoons today, Friday and Saturday.

Presence and connection – a moment, not a “thing – is as freely available as the air we breathe. We don’t just let go of something, but let go into the moment. With trust, we find that every moment is enough.

Saint Augustine, was born on this day in 354 A.D. Tagaste, Numidia, now Algeria. He helped lay the foundation for much of medieval and modern Christian thought.

Today is the birthdate of Robert Louis Stevenson. He was born in 1850 Edinburgh, Scotland.

Gerard Butler is 56 today. The Scot actor was born in 1969 Paisley, near Edinburgh, Scotland.

Loving kindness for control freaks. – in Tricycle, Kimberly Brown.

First Circadian Blue-Shift

– after Mary Oliver

This is what I know from years

of being me.

From years of being me this

is what I know.

What I know has taken

years. Years

have taken what I know

from being me.

— jab

Hey, hey, my, my . . .

Wednesday, November 12, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . Light, variable Easterlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown, maintaining sunny skies and setting the stage for a warming trend. Mid 70's today.

Surprise (not): Trump knew about the girls, according to Epstein emails.

Undisciplined democrats, focused republicans. What's up with that? – Richard Reich, Why, online 11.12.25

And yet, what has gone wrong with the Republican Party? That's the topic of a video posted by Joyce Vance on her site Civil Liberties.

Richard Reich has been posting A LOT lately. And for good reason: Why should we be concerned with Ai?

Heather Cox Richardson posted an excellent reflection re: yesterday's Armistice Day – in her Letters From An American.

Novelist and short-story writer Hanan al-Shaykh is 80 today. She was born in 1945 Beirut, Lebanon.

Neil Young is also 80 today, born in 1945 Toronto, Canada. The Canadian/American singer-songwriter, musician, film director, screenwriter is a multi-award laureate, including twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

A true hard-core rocker, Young is also a consummate baladeer. Many of his hits feature the moon.

A cue ball hits the rack . . .

Tuesday, November 11, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . Moderate to strong Southerlies return to TulseyTown today, bringing a mix of sun and clouds and a warming trend to the end of the week. 70º today, 80's by Saturday.

Think on it: As we are all interconnected, each gesture of love, of kindness is shared with all beings in each moment throughout this day. Fear separates. Love unites.

News of the terms of the deal to end the shutdown hit the country rather like a cue ball hitting a rack: lots of balls started to move in wildly different directions. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

Today is Armistice Day – now called Veterans day in the U.S. – recognizing the signing of the peace treaty that ended World War One. The day was was marked with the burial of unknown soldiers in tombs in Paris and London, and a similar ceremony was held at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, in 1921.

And, today marks the birthdays of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, born in 1821 Moscow, and Kurt Vonnegut, who was born in 1922 Indianapolis, Indiana.

Enlightenment is an accident. We learn from our blunders, misunderstandings, doubts, and misgivings. Mistakes arise naturally when we embrace don’t-know mind. Even though we don’t know where we are within the process of awakening, or where we are going, or how to get there, we remain curious. And curiosity is the spark that fires our attention and vitalizes our commitment to the [meditation] path. – Zen Master Taigen Leighton.

The First Three Words

Insight is not the goal, rather

the beginning.

We enter the world aware,

curious, absent the first three words

that shape our journey: mama,

dada, and … no ...

When we later, sooner would be bester,

begin to seek all those enlightenment

attributes we've been promised,

we come from a place of forgetfulness:

We are already and have been

thus far forever living in an unaware world –

aware. — jab