Enough already . . .
Thursday, February 5, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . and previews of Spring are in the forecasts. Moderate Westerlies, sunny skies, upper 60's afternoon. Did I say ”previews”? The first shoots of jonquils were up this morning in the front flowerbed of my small TulseyTown cottge
Life keeps asking us a single question: Can you meet me as I am? – JackKornfield, “Bowing to What Is” in All In This Together. St. Martin's Essentials, 2025.
You know what’s going on as well as I do: Trump is justifiably worried about the 2026 midterms...Trump figures that now is the time to try to fix the midterm elections. – Robert Reich, Could Trump Really “Take Over” the Midterm Elections? Online.
“Just the facts:” Repubs are in full-out-panic. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Christopher Guest is 78 today. The American and British actor, comedian, screenwriter and director was born in 1948 New York City.
Playwright and screenwriter John Guare is 88. He was born in 1938 New York City.
And, it's the birthdate of novelist William S. Burroughs. A prolific experimentalist, he was born in 1914 St. Louis, Missouri.
Luminesence is a multi-part series created by and for women focusing on sexuality. Informative and empowering. Reader, regardless of your gender, the series is a definite worthy. IMO, of course.
There is always more than enough. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.
Eternal wisdom . . .
Wednesday, February 4, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate moderate Northerlies continue with clouds and the high barely above 50º – a blustery reminder of what we are leaving behind. Previews of Spring start tomorrow.
Compassion is an action word with no boundaries. – Prince
Today is the birthday of Rosa Parks. The iconic figure of the American Civil Rights movement was born today in 1913 Tuskegee, Alabama.
Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released in U.S. theatres on this day in 1937.
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning play Our Town opened on Broadway today in 1938.
Betty Friedan, the co-founder (among several others) of The National Organization for Women – N.O.W. – was born today in 1921, Peoria, Illinois.
In the conflict between reality and white nationalist ideology, reality appears to be gaining ground. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Music is essential to being human. – Jeff Krasno, “Music Makes Everyone Feel The Same,“ Commune, 1.31.26
Spotify has 100 million songs. If you played a different song every 3 minutes, 24/7, it would take you 570 years to hear them all once. And by then, they'd have added 50 billion more. Nobody will ever hear all the music. Not you. Not anyone. You are falling behind by 99,520 songs every single day. – Kim Komando, The Current, 2.1.26
The Eternal Song: an invitation. The link is to the trailer of the short film of the same name. There is an email requirement for the entire film (12 minutes) but the donation amount can be $0.00. A worthy break for indigenous wisdom.
Long life . . .
Tuesday, February 3, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . Northerlies return to TulseyTown, so say the forecasts, bringing a cooler next two days in the 50's before turning into a ten day stretch of 70's and a preview of Spring coming attractions.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own. —Marcus Aurelius
February is Black History Month and the [Trump] administration is openly working to replace American multiculturalism with white nationalism, launching raids by federal agents to terrorize Brown and Black Americans as well as white Americans who reject MAGA ideology. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.
The world no longer trusts Christians who “love Jesus” but do not seem to love anything else...We have to trust the messenger before we can trust the message, and that seems to be Jesus’s strategy. Too often, we have substituted the messenger for the message. – Fr. Richard Rohr, “That By Which We See.” Meditations, The Center for Action and Meditation, 12.28.25.
All my mornings are Mondays. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
The prolific author James Michener was born today in 1907 Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
It's also the birthdate of Gertrude Stein. She was born in 1874, Allegheny City [now in Pittsburgh], Pa.
Nathan Lane is 69 today. The multi-laureate award actor was born in 1956, Jersey City, New Jerse.y
Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash on this day in 1959, making this day “the day the music died,”
Lives, as short as they may be, live on in unexpected ways.