Is money your soft $pot?

Monday, December 29, 2025. It's the Moon's day . . . Strong, cold Northwesterlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown with upper 30's and sunny skies. The winds are to diminish to easy variables in the evening.

Each of us has this soft spot: a capacity for love and tenderness. But if we don’t encourage it, we can get pretty stubborn about remaining sour. – Pema Chödrön

It is never too late to change the future. What we can learn from today's anniversary of the Massacre at Wounded Knee. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

The week ahead. – Joyce Vance, in today's Civil Discourse.

Five ways to make a billion dollars. None of it is in the “free market.” – Robert Reich, online, 12.29.25

Dream

In the dream, I am living in some indeterminate

time delineated only by the late atmosphere

of the sky at dusk

[…]

when I look over my shoulder and smile, you are there

[...]

– David Whyte, “Dream,” in The Bell and The Blackbird, Many Rivers Press, 2018.

Constitutional grace . . .

Sunday, December 28, 2025.

It's Sol's day . . . Strong Northerlies bring falling temperatures throughout the day to TulseyTown today. A mix of clouds and sun. Morning high of 68F with temps falling sharply to near 40. Winds NW at 20 to 30 mph. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.

The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing an angel might come and sit on it. —Thomas Merton

He looks like a witness to me. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

Over the Christmas holiday, the Trump administration threw its weight against the U.S. Constitution in favor of Christian nationalist authoritarianism. – Heather Cox Richardson, Letters From An American.

Meditating on the life and teachings – of Jesus, Shantideva, Bodhidharma, and Francis of Assisi – are each and all valuable contributors to spiritual insights that bring me peace.

An evolving future . . .

Saturday, December 27, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate near record high temperatures in the low 80's this afternoon

Today in 1831 Charles Darwin set sail on the HMS Beagle, beginning the voyage on which he would formulate his theory of evolution.

Now that Santa has no doubt retreated to wherever it is he goes to rest up from his everywhereallatonceallnightaroundtheworld journey, I thought it might be worth catching up on his history. Heather Cox Richardson posted an excellent account posted on Christmas day in her Letters From An American.

Interview with New York's soon to be (this Thursday) Mayor Zohran Mamdani with Robert Reich, posted yesterday.

We Speak of August

We don’t know what will happen

between one raindrop and the next,

yet we speak of August as if it were a contract

[…]

In the eastern sky the first star is out,

preparing for the long night of wishes.

[…]

— Valentina Gnup, the Rattle Poetry Prize “We Speak of August” in Rattle #34, Winter, 2010.