Crashing into reality . .

Friday, November 14, 2025 . It's Freya's (Frigg's) day . . . Forecasts indicate the potential for record high temperatures – near 80º – this afternoon in TulseyTown, along with partly cloudy skies and windy Southerlies. Even warmer tomorrow.

Birthdays today: One of the first Impressionist painters, Claude Monet, was born in 1840 Paris; political satirist P.J. O’Rourke was born in 1947 Toledo, Ohio; and cartoonist and author (Shrek!) William Steig, was born in 1907 New York City.

Trump's treason. The verdict of history. – Robert Reich, online 11.13.25

The emails. – Joyce Vance, on Civil Discourse.

We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

Chaos has an order all its own.

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.