A full mail-box . . .A full mail-box . . .

Sunday, December 7, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . Strong Northerlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown, making for a blustery-cold early Winter day today. Wind chill indices are in the 30's all day under a cloud cover.

The Mailbox this morning was full of flotsam and jetsam.

It was on this day in 1941 that Japanese bombers attacked Pearl Harbor.

Noam Chomsky turns 97 today. The public intellectual, socio/political writer, and the man known as the “father of modern linguistics,” (and my mentor from afar) was born on this day in 1928 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Speaking of the denizens of MIT, drug hunters at that institution are using AI to design completely new antibiotics – Adele Peters

[Our Source] is the eternal “I” waiting for those willing to be a “Thou.” – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditation, The Center for Action and Contemplation.

Cultivating the liberating power of conscious attention. – Tara Brach, video shared 12.6.25

I Looked Up,

What misery to be afraid of death.

What wretchedness, to believe

only in what can be proven.

– Mary Oliver, “I Looked Up,” in White Pine, Harcourt, 1994..

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