Courted by a who? Or a what?
Tuesday, December 2, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . Moderate Southerlies return to TulseyTown with sunshine and warmer afternoons all week. Today, mid 40's by mid afternoon. Mornings will still be chilly.
You don’t find your purpose. You build your purpose, experiment by experiment, mistake by mistake. When you find yourself amid that which if you were not being paid to do, you would pay to do...that's it.
It's December: the month the TV channels unpack “It's a Wonderful Life.” Prompting Robert Reich to focus on Trump, the Pope and Jimmy Stewart's Christmas .
Today is the birthday of painter Georges Seurat. He was born in 1859 Paris, France.
On this day in 1942 the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated during an experiment led by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago.
Signs of a political system in shambles. – Matt Kerbel, Wolves and Sheep, 12.1.25
Trump’s behavior over the holiday weekend has increased concern about his mental acuity. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American for 12.2.25
The Monetization of Rage: Why we're so polarized. – Robert Reich online 12.2.25
The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present.
...many of us turn our backs on dazzling sunsets, on raucous wildflowers bursting through concrete, on playful bird song, inured to these wild, sensual displays of affection while bemoaning our solitude and unlovability. Who is courting you? – Sophie Strand, Make Me Good Soil, 12.2.25
Monday, December 1, 2025 If you build it . . .
It's the Moon's day . . . A freezing rain this morning made for some black ice on bridges and over passes in TulseyTown. Forecasts indicate light Northerlies maintaining cloudy skies and mid 30's throughout the day. Another hard freeze tomorrow morning with partly cloudy conditions.
Remember you are this universe and this universe is you. – Joy Harjo
Today in 1860 the first installment of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations was published.
The moment to pick a side has come. – Joyce Vance in Civil Discourse.
Although war conditions usually help a president’s popularity, Trump’s threat to attack Venezuela attracts the support of only 30% of Americans. Seventy percent oppose such military action. And there are legal quarters suggesting the attacks qualify as war crimes. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
The week ahead – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Today in 1913 the auto industry as we know it came into being with the debut of world's first moving assembly line. It was used in manufacturing Model Ts at a Ford factory in Highland Park, Michigan; the innovation was the idea of owner Henry Ford, and it revolutionized the auto industry. His workers hated it.
How would humanity respond if we discovered an asteroid headed for Earth? NASA’s "Planetary Defenders" is a gripping documentary that delves into the high-stakes world of asteroid detection and planetary defense.
We are expressions in flux, shaped by environment, behavior, and choice. Epigenetics, neuroplasticity, and the microbiome have rewritten the story of what it means to be human. – Jeff Krasno, The Tao of Health, 11.29.25
A Senior's Villanelle
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History stores its memories in archives
like silent films whose stories you can’t hear.
The old relate their tales—the past revives.
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– Lynn Hess, “A Senior's Villanelle.” read the whole poem at Rattle, Issue #89 – Fall 2025.
Gratitude: Just in time for Winter . . .
Sunday, November 30, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . and Fall done fell all the way into Winter this morning in TulseyTown. Moderate to strong Northerlies are in the forecasts to hold temperatures in the 30's all day with a mix of sun and clouds. Full overcast is due by early evening followed by another overnight hard freeze. Wind chill today is to hold in the upper 20's. Yers Trooley is a big fan of David Archy long underware. Jus' sayin' …
The rules of life are simple, though life itself is very complicated. The point is not to do something, get something, or go somewhere; the point is to try to open our eyes. The tiniest tincture of truth has the power to remove the dust that blinds us. – Marianne Williamson, If Only We Will Look, in Transform, 11.24.25
Winston Churchill was born on this day in 1874, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England.
Today is also the birthday of Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in1835 Florida, Missouri.
Canadian children’s author L.M. Montgomery, the author of Anne of Green Gables was born in 1874 Clifton, Prince Edward Island.
Film producer/director Sir Ridley Scott is 88 today. The multi-awarded laureate was born in 1937, South Shields, Durham, England.
And, Woody Allen is 90 today.
To be an American is an ideal, while to be a Frenchman is a fact. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought.
Gratitude
has no patience for performance.
You want it to hold still and be seen,
it wants to fly your heart like a kite.
– Abbey Murray, “The Problem with Gratitude,” in Rattle, 11.30.25