Searching for clues . . .

Wednesday, January 7, 2026. It's Odin's day . . .

Mares’ tails and mackerel scales make tall ships carry low sails. The otherwise clear blue skies yesterday morning before noon contained numerous mare's tails – coordinate with the U.S. Weather Bureau forecasts for good rains beginning tomorrow in TulseyTown. Forecasts for today indicate increasing cloudiness with moderate Southerlies and the last 70º day for at least the next ten days as cooler conditions prevail.

Your naivety is not. It is your source of wisdom: the navigational map of The Way.

Today is the birthday of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. She was born on this day in 1844, Lourdes, France.

It’s also the birthdate of Zora Neale Hurston. The writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker was born in 1891 Notasulga, Alabama.

Jann Wenner is 79 today. The publisher of Rolling Stone was born in 1946 New York City.

And, Katie Couric turns 68. A television host at all of the Big Three television networks she was born in 1957, Arlington, Virginia.

Dancing Donald. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.

Trump is attempting to rewrite the history of January 6th. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

Today in 1972, the existence of a cosmic black hole was confirmed for the first time.

I’m tempted to make a joke of the previous three items. Hmmm… just did.

Searching for a clue about how to navigate the emerging landscape...The isms create chasms that too many of us have fallen into. The walls erected by phobias were meant to keep the Other out, but instead have imprisoned those who built them...Perhaps ironically, it was a man who showed the way to my Mother. – – Mirabai Starr, “How I Met My Mother in a World Out of Balance” 1.6.26

Fantastic fog . . .

Tuesday, January 6, 2026. It's Tiw's day … a sunny day in TulseyTown. Forecasts indicate moderate Northerlies and mid 70's for the afternoon.

So, what is “mindfulness?” Mindfulness is the present moment ....a direct and wordless experience of presence. Mindfulness is not a thought, but rather attention itself. It is open-ness without agenda. Thoughts/words are “doing.” Like the words you are reading. Mindfulness is “being”–like the spaces between these words and the space remaining at the end of this sentence before the next one

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Higher education and the future markedly changed by Ai.

Sophie Strand and scientific animism. A fascinating read In Make Me Good Soil, posted yesterday 1.4.26

Trump's Venezuelan quagmire. – Robert Reich, online.1.4.25

Birthdays

Novelist Elizabeth Strout turns 70 today. She was born in 1956 Portland, Maine.

It's the birthdate of E.L. Doctorow. The novelist, editor, and professor was born on this day in 1931 the Bronx, New York.

It's also the birthdate of Carl Sandburg. The poet, historian, novelist, and folklorist was born in 1878, Galesburg, Illinois.

Fog

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

– “Fog,” published in Chicago Poems, Henry Holt and Company, 1916

And its the birthdate of composer Max Bruch. He was born in 1838, Cologne, Germany.

Josh Bell creates reality from a fantasy.

How dare we not . . .

Monday, January 5, 2026. It's the Moon's day . . . Strong Southerlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown, bringing sunny skies and 70º this afternoon. The 70's are indicated to stay with us until turning cooler with good rain chances Thursday.

Spend some time today resting in the open space of wonder. Look at the world with childlike wonder. Try to see people and things as if for the very first time, like a one-year-old who has not yet learned the names of anything. When memory, judgment, and language loosen their grip, what is left?

Today marks the Twelfth Night. It’s the official end of the holiday season, which begins with All Hallows’ Eve. Though the origin of the Twelfth Night celebration dates back to the Roman Saturnalia, most of the traditional observances of the holiday that have survived date back to medieval England. It's all but absent in the U.S. except, perhaps, for attending a performance of Shakespeare's play or watching it streaming. The Church of England, Mother Church of the Anglican Communion, celebrates Twelfth Night on the 5th and refers to the night before Epiphany, the day when the nativity story tells us that the wise men visited the infant Jesus.

The creator of “The Method” for actors, Konstantin Stanislavsky, was born in 1863, Moscow, Russia .

Actors sharing today's birthdate: Robert Duvall is 95 today, born in 1931 San Diego, California; Bradley Cooper turns 51, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Diane Keaton was born in 1946, Los Angeles, California – she died this past October.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio took the administration’s message about its strikes on Venezuela to the Sunday talk shows. It did not go well. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

Tomorrow marks the most shameful day in American history. – Robert Reich, 1.5.26

The week ahead. Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse, 1.5.26

The question isn’t, dare I say love, but how dare I not. – Bob Hicok, “The Naivete and Potential Embarrassment of Proposing an Empathy-Shaped Economy While Living in a K-Shaped Economy,” Rattle: Poets Respond, online 1.4.26