A slow horse has miles to go . . .
Sunday, March 8, 2026. It's Sol's day. . . Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate a lovely Spring with moderate Southerlies, sunny skies and mid 70's.
Generosity isn’t giving away all your material possessions; it is the mind being joyful and wanting to give. It is making an effort to give; it is going out of your way to be able to do it with your own efforts. – Geshe Sopa
Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), day (March 8) honouring the achievements of women and promoting women’s rights. A national holiday in numerous countries, it has been sponsored by the United Nations (UN) since 1975.
There is a contagion of violence in the world; it’s spreading like a disease. But grace is also contagious. – Shane Claiborne, “Choosing Grace Not Violence,” in Meditations, at The Center for Action and Contemplation.
Trump: It ain't gonna happen. – Washington Post: Intelligence report.
One of the pioneers of creative nonfiction, John McPhee is 95 today. The Pulitzer Prize writer was born in 1931 Princeton, New Jersey.
Today is also the birthdate of novelist Kenneth Grahame. The author of Wind in the Willows was born in 1859 Edinburgh, Scotland.
“The Last Great Race” kicks off this weekend, so Alaskans are gathering for the Iditarod. For the Lower 48ers reading, the Iditarod is a 50-year-old competition where dog mushers and their teams race from Anchorage to Nome through 1,000 miles of the Bush. It is a celebration of the endurance of Alaskan spirit. Officially, the race kicks off in Willow, Alaska today — they say the course is roughly 1,049 miles (fitting as Alaska is the 49th state).
And, yesterday, in 1923 Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” was published in The New Republic magazine.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
– Robert Frost. This poem is in the public domain.
Ignoring the obvious . . .
Saturday, March 7, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . .Moderate Northerlies bring clearing skies to TulseyTown this afternoon with mid 50's. After a chilly morning tomorrow, a warming trend settles in through Tuesday. All just in time for time to “Spring Forward.” Turn your clocks forward one hour before you go to bed tonght. Daylight Savings Time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday.
Today in 1965, 25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers, footage of the violence collectively shocked the nation and became the turning point in the fight against racial injustice. The day has been remembered in civil rights history as “Bloody Sunday.”
An out-of-touch-Okie-MAGA- cowboy wants to to be the new leader of the Department of Homeland Security. – Huffington Post dug into his bio.
Marcus Aurelius was born on this day in 121 ce, Rome, Italy. The Roman emperor (161–180) was best known for his Meditations on Stoic philosophy and as a symbol for the Golden Age of the Roman Empire to many generations in the West
It’s the composer Maurice Ravel’s birthday. He was born in 1875, Ciboure, France.
And, Piet Mondrian was born today in 1872, Amersfoort, Netherlands. He was a leader in the development of modern abstract art.
Garrison Keillor reflected with affection on our neighbor to the North. – March into March, on substack.
And, one of the great Texas troubadours and a legend in songwriting circles, Townes Van Zandt, was born on this day in 1944 Fort Worth.
Letting in the light . . .
Friday, March 6, 2026. It's Frey's (Frigg's) day . . . Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate with possible thunderstorms in the afternoon and overnight. Moderate to strong Southerlies are to become Northerlies tomorrow morning. A cloudy day today in the mid 70's.
How can there be a door when no wall remains? You shine through the windows of every house. Why shouldn't I let Your Light in? – Rumi
Today is the birthdate of Gabriel García Márquez. The 982 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature born in 1927, Aracataca, Colombia.
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was born on this day in 1619, Paris.
And, it’s also the birthday of Michelangelo. He was born today in 1475, Caprese, Republic of Florence, Italy.
Trump’s assertion of power globally contrasts with increasing setbacks at home. — Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American, posted last night for today.
The last thing America needs is a giant pro-Trump media monopoly.This mega-media monopoly can be stopped. Here’s how. – Robert Reich, on substack this morning.
Testosterone is not just a “guy thing.” It may be the #1 “blind spot” in medicine's view of women. – Luminescence. 3.1.26
Testosterone Rising
The mind/brain thinks involuntarily
just like the heart beats:
Memoires from many years.
Just as now
here, alone,
in my king sized bed
on a Thor's day morning
at four a.m.
– jab