When will we find love . . .
Wednesday, February 11, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . sunshine, some clouds and low 60's are in the forecasts for TulseyTown. Easy Northerlies make for a cool afternoon.
Searching for the treasure, you've endured much trouble. Hear this truth:
You are the treasure and the veil hiding it. – Rumi
It was on this day in 1858 that St. Bernadette had her first visions of Mary at Lourdes.
Today is the birth date of Thomas Edison. The inventor that brought us into the electric age was born in 1847, Milan, Ohio.
The philosopher/mathematician René Descartes was born on this day in 1596, La Haye, Touraine, France.
Pico Iyer is 68 today. The novelist essayist and travel writer was born to Indian parents in 1957 Oxford, England.
Multi-laureate awarded actor, Jennifer Aniston is 57 today. born in 1969, Sherman Oaks, California.
Another multi laureate actor, Damian Lewis, is 55, born today in 1971, London, England..
It's also the birthday of film director, producer, and screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The Academy Award multi-laureate was born in 1909 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
When will we find love. – bell hooks, Toward a Revolution of Love, Lion's Roar, January 2026.
I Traveled to Every City
there was none like the city of Love.
This pen feels no pride or shame.
It doesn't laud or lash itself.
It knows it traverses the unknown.
The mind can't contain these paradoxes –
how the pen surrenders form to the formless,
giving the formless form.
…
Who am I when Love obliterates the I
I thought I was, drawing me from one path,
leading me on another?
I could tell you,
but every time I get to this point
the tip of my pen breaks.
– Rumi, “I Traveled to Every City,” in Water, Translated by Haleh Liza Gafori, New York Review Books, 2025.
Staying in precious time. . .
Tuesday, February 10, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . forecasts for TulseyTown indicate Westerlies becoming strong Northerlies during the afternoon bringing clouds and mid 60's. Clearing overnight.
Every healthy relationship starts with two people who have healthy relationships with themselves.
Any toxic relationship is the result of at least one person’s toxic relationship with themselves.
NYCity Mayor Mandami trumped Trump this past Friday, putting his pen where his mouth has been, in a direct confrontation with ICE and Homan's immigration perversion and violence.
Today is the birthdate of playwriter Bertolt Brecht. He was born in 1898, Augsburg, Germany.
Novelist Mary McGarry Morris is 83 today.The author of Songs in Ordinary Time was born in 1943 Meriden, Connecticut.
And, It's the 56th birthday of Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad. The Nobel Laureate was born in 1970 Oslo.
To live without arriving is to learn how to stay.
Pause, Refresh, Repeat
How long has it been that you visited
the landing page of this website?
Let me refresh.
There is no reason to be
swimming in the zen stream
other than (1) you can't not; and
(2) it's a pleasant way to spend
some of your precious time.
Swimming in The Way to “get somewhere”
is to swim against the stream.
Treading in the eddies is quite appropriate.
Appropo, these pages are eddies.
-- jab
Don't wait up . . .
Monday, February 9, 2026. It's the Moon's day . . . reaching the half-way of its waning journey to new. Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate a near Summer day with easy Southerlies, sunny skies and low 80's, returning to the upper 60's tomorrow. Good rain chances Friday and Saturday.
It is not within the power of a thought to control awareness. You are not your thoughts. They are not you. They are … just … thoughts.
The Week Ahead. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Fomenting phobia: A history lesson from Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Alice Walker is 81 today. The novelist, short story writer, poet, social activist and 1982 Pulitzer Prize laureate (The Color Purple) was born in 1944, Eatonton, Georgia.
Carole King was born 83 years ago today. The prolific songwriter/singer was born in 1942, New York City.
Don't wait up: It's too late . . .