In the Year 2025JanuaryCalifornia wildfiresa fascist re-electedthings are heating upAmericaFebruaryChinese tariffsEagles beat Chiefsgames that we playwinning?MarchTrudeau resignswrongful deportations beginBurma earthquake kills thousandsunavoidables?April”Sinners” premiersNZ seismic threatsRussia bombs Sumy civiliansdestructionMayMidwest tornadoesNPR PBS axedfirst American Pope electedhope?JuneAstronauts returnNo Kings ProtestsNational Guard invades L.A.humansJulyUSAID shutteredTX flash floodsColbert announces 2026 cancellationdisintegrationAugustNewsome’s pushMaxwell prison transferNational Guard attacks AmericansmachinationsSeptemberKimmel (un)canceledPakistan flash floodsAmerica…
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dVerse Q238 — Sleep Will Have to Wait
image by Daniel Sleep Will Have to Wait Oh, how I longto curl up,warm-cocooned,for crescent’s dreamlight’s long night. Alas, winter dreamsto hibernate must wait.Faithful frigid friendextends their visit. Awake, I step into wool socks,shove into gloves,layer paint to show snowdrifts some churning love. Mish is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. Mish wants us to…
“Oil is Not Energy,” by Jeffrey Insko (share from substack)
Please take a moment to follow the link and read Jeffrey’s essay. Clean water matters. From Bill Latka of Oil & Water Don’t Mix: This is exactly the kind of sharp analysis we need to cut through corporate messaging that puts our Great Lakes at risk. I’m genuinely grateful to Jeff for his clear, revealing…
FFF 62 — Doodads
Happy Friday Everyone! Lots of contending with the weather this week, but a few opportunities to forget about it also. I went out for dinner with older son last night and took a few pics of the place we went. It’s one of our favorite places to go. Son usually gets pizza. I got eggplant…
dVerse MTB/Forms Thursday — Michigan December Tableau
taken the day before we got 8 more inches Michigan December Tableaucoat, boots, hat, scarf, gloveslong strides punch tall driftsgarage lock’s unfrozenblessing before taskbacktrack holes to houserehang keys on hookshiny red beast primed,plugged in, roars to lifechurns into bright lightchute spews white rivercoating cottonwooduntil time to turnround we go, circuitsheated grip warmersease arthritic joints.county plow…
dVerse Poetics Tuesday — unwinding
image link unwindinglandscapes that one hopes are never bindingquicksand, bogs, crevasses please avoidweaves unseam as wisdom is unwindingseasons gather hems forever findingfabrics stitched with bits of overjoyverdant hopes may stay but are not bindingunstick bias, resolute non-mindingcomfort basks in quiet of the voidweaves unseam as wisdom is unwindingserendipity an unsought findingbobbin on high seas of…
Bears Gone Wild
PBS black bear fact sheet No joke, twice today I’ve read about and seen where bears are attacking people. One was at an animal show in China, which showed woefully unprepared animal trainers who were involved dealing with the attack. It’s not the first time a captive wild creature has fought back against its imprisonment….
Tao Talk 