A foggy day in … TulseyTown
Saturday, December 6, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . A beautiful morning fog settled into TulseyTown this morning. Forecasts indicate sun and clouds by Noon. Moderate to strong Southerlies are likely along with upper 40s. A bit of a blustery day.
It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It’s gratefulness that makes us happy.
Today is St. Nicholas’ Day in Germany and other European countries.
Lyricist Ira Gershwin was born today in 1896 on the East Side of New York City.
Ulysses was, and is, outside the box of “normal” novels. But “obscene?” No.
Speaking of breaking norms: The jazz composer/pianist Dave Brubeck was born in 1920 Concord California.
So, take a few. As many as five is OK.
Fog never slowed Judy Garland.
Kissing is disgusting … but in a nice way … like blu cheese or brandy. – character Zora Polunachaya in “Head Full of Snow,” American Gods, Season 1, Episode 3. Streaming on Prime and Apple+.
Certainty in the garden . . .
Friday, December 5, 2025. It's Freya's (Frigg's) day . . . Forecasts indicate a partly sunny sky for TulseyTown by afternoon as moderate Southerlies clear morning cloud cover and bring low 50's. Pretty much the same forecasts for the next ten days. Chilly mornings.
Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard has died. He passed on November29th.
Essayist and novelist Joan Didion was born on this day in 1934 Sacramento, California.
It's Walt Disney's birthdate. He was born in 1901 Chicago, Illinois.
Writer John Berendt is 86 today. Born in 1939 Syracuse, New York, his novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was turned into a well regarded film directed by Clint Eastwood which is streaming on several sites.
And its the birth date of physicist Werner Heisenberg. The author of the uncertainty principle was born in 1901Würzburg, Germany.
At Play in the Garden Park
The end of time does not come tomorrow,
but in the moment we witness the end of the past
and the leading edge of the future.
In this place, into which we are invited,
there is little for the ego to do but sing
the songs of Hafiz and Rumi,
write the poems of Rilke
and Whitman, and Oliver
over and over and over,
as if there were no tomorrow.
– jab
A sky made of stone . . .
Thursday, December 4, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . Northerlies bring clouds toTulseyTown today, with upper 30s and the possibility for a few flurries or snow showers.
I awoke this morning
gifted with the insight
that I – like Jim Harrison –
had just completed half a year
blinded by the alphabet.
– jab
A super “Cold Moon” rises this evening.
The New York Times has sued the Pentagon over its policy restricting journalists, citing violation of the First Amendment.
Federal agents today arrested a suspect in a Jan. 6 pipe bomb investigation
The first Mars roaming robot research vehicle, Pathfinder, was launched on this day in 1966. The mission was a NASA/JPL project headed up by Donna Shirley, the first woman with an engineering degree at JPL among 2,000 men. I'm rather proud to say I am a friend. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her husband George who is also in my small circle of friends.
The pioneer of abstract art, Wassily Kandinsky was born on this day in 1866, Moscow, Russia.
Today is the birthday of poet Rainer Maria Rilke, born in 1875 Prague.
I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not ever complete the last one,
but I give myself to it.
I circle around God, that primordial tower.
I have been circling for thousands of years,
and I still don't know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song? — Rilke– Rilke's Book of Hours, English version by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
Original Language German, Riverhead Books, 1997.
The moon can be a cold, harsh mistress.