as these frightening times progress, staying positive at ALL tmes and remembering always that there is absolutely no benefit from harming yourself, or others, is the ONLY way. 🙏🙏

revising my ittle song for sop. and sq, El aire se serena, that i wrote for a 1986 tulane req. but was never ultimately premiered. a setting of a 16th c. spanish religious poem celebrating a musician. A Francisco Salinas by Fray Luis de León Original text: www.poesi.as/fll03.htm

for those that understand, it's enough...

“The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community. The aftermath of nonviolence is redemption." -- Martin Luther King

toad sits in water surrounded by hopeful vocalizations... 😎

RIP Bela Tarr, w/an extraordinary clarification: “My opinion is that we were doing comedies. You can laugh a lot. I only ask this, how did you feel when you came out of the movie theatre after watching my film? Did you feel stronger or weaker? That’s the main question. I want you to be stronger."

Been a busy few days of birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries: We celebrated 44 years of marriage yesterday! Rome restaurant menu gazing w/Elsie in 2005?

Big news for anyone w/MS: 'Scientists have detected two new biological strands of MS using AI, a simple blood test and MRI scans. Experts said the “exciting” breakthrough could revolutionise treatment of the disease worldwide.'

A video of a protester sitting in the street and facing down police on motorbikes during demonstrations that erupted in Tehran in recent days has gone viral on social media, with some observers calling it Iran's "Tiananmen moment". france24 report: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCyq...

biggest crowds yet with a new sense of hopeful urgency as the buddhist walk for peace arrives in decatur, georgia. they hope to reach the white house 2/13. local news report: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvja...

Why are private detecives taught to never stare when following someone? Under surveillance, how do we build a relationship w/the suspected camera locations? youtu.be/00fj-K2wsos?...

A pair of colliding spiral galaxies. Here, both spirals are shown face on, with the smaller of the two galaxies, IC 2163, at the upper left of the larger galaxy, NGC 2207, which dominates the center and lower right of the image.

Hey Ronnie, come on in... 😆

"How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold?" he asked.

Nazaré - Lucas Chumbo surfs the mountain while his jetski partner marvels: youtu.be/-R1bDoKWjsM?...

I worked in the classical basement on 46th St. in '82. Morton Feldman and Bunita Marcus came in looking for the Ruth Crawford Seeger quartet. I was glad to be of assistance. 😉

The #1 movie from when you were 10 is how your 2026 is going to go... 🫣

Weird way to find your Brass Quintet, used as an example of transposing instruments in a Brazilian harmony textbook:😎

Citizen who presented legal proof transferred to LA deportation camp: Born in 2003 in Prince George’s County, MD. “It was very random,” Slatton said. “I don’t see any reason why they would have been targeting her, except she was speaking Spanish. Slatton was blunt: “She does not present as White.”

Frogs are our friends! 'Bacterium from the intestines of Japanese tree frogs has "exhibited remarkably potent" tumor-killing abilities when administered intravenously, outperforming current standard therapies and paving the way for an entirely new approach to treating cancer.'

French minimalism of a sort, impressive and wondrously orchestrated by Christophe Bertrand (1981-2010):

Big news about new buildings at Plum Village in France:

2 excellent vids about recent revelations on how we view animal intelligence. From teaching lizards how to open doors w/instructive videos to mourning fish and deceptive spiders, it seems that personal identification is a part of agency, so is sentience and 'person-hood' inherent in all animals?

Fighting against this racist immigration deportation crisis isn't even political... it's simply human, religious, normal. Great interview from our new mayor about why the Hispanic vote shifted.

ICE holding Chinese man who documented Uyghur camps Guan Heng's video of Chinese detention facilities from 2020. He escaped to the US only to be detained by ICE.

Red sprites seen from the ISS: Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) are colorful, high-altitude flashes of light that occur above thunderstorms, often mistaken for lightning but happening higher in the atmosphere. These events include various types like red "sprites," blue "jets".

Buddhist nun Kelsang Virya attends the Mutual Aid Monday she co-founded, on Nov. 17, 2025, near City Hall in Denver. youtu.be/pTz_IUrl18g

charming, heavy and funny:

The winning image at the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards by British photographer Mark Meth-Cohn: His photo, which is named 'High Five', features a shot of a "young gorilla cavorting through a forest clearing."

Today is the anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton in 1968. Merton was a Trappist monk, hermit, author and poet who spoke out prominently on social issues from within the cloister of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. He also famously engaged with Buddhism, dying on a trip to Asia. Pray for us!

Change is in the air! 19 point win. So we’re seeing families torn apart by ICE’s indiscriminate mass deportations. We are seeing prices continue to go up. We’re seeing the affordability crisis with housing and insurance premiums continue to go up. And so this is all extremely local and it matters.

Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy. Enough to power 23 million homes! U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.

My big pounding '90's piano piece, BlueStrider, here interpreted by Steve Layton and musical animator, Stephen Malinowski. It's been performed by pianists around the globe, including Nadia Shpachenko (Las Vegas 2007) and Paul Hoffman (NYC 2007).

'tis the season to repost this... Elsie's great-grandpa who wrote popular poems and named reindeer.

Another attempted abduction of US citizens. Before risking this atrocious lawlessness BP and ICE need to get warrants!

Rovelli claims the reason we exp time forward is because we depend on entropy to exist; our lives function through turning order into energized chaos to live.

The theremin's influences is beyond the pale! In a 1983 interview in the New Age Journal, [George] Winston, asked if he knew who comprised his audience, answered that there were some classical fans, some jazz, some pop and “all the woo-woos.”

Crafting your own narrative in a way that benefits the re-tellability of said narrative and your hoped for consequences from its re-telling: '...you have to tell a story so clear, so concise, so memorable and evocative that people can repeat it for you even after you’ve left the room.'

Speaking of Animals hiding in boxes...

She's 85 lbs...let's rough her up.

Artists fighting back against those that seek to own us by watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfQ...

Media bias is how we got here! Let's report it honestly and... frequently.🙏

Torture reported at ICE facilities: 'Detainees at the notorious Florida immigration jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz” were shackled inside a 2ft high metal cage and left outside without water for up to a day at a time, a shocking report published on Thursday by Amnesty International.'

we already live in space... '...the affected jet could have been struck by a cosmic ray, a stream of high-energy particles from a distant star explosion that may have travelled millions of years before reaching Earth.'

Stravinsky and Balanchine. this made the morning into something wonderful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud8z...

A woman in scrubs screams while she is illegally abducted in Key Largo, by masked men w/o honor or ID's themselves... traffic was maintained at a reasonable pace despite the screams.

'...shaking a few pitiful drops on the flames. It’s sad how little it accomplishes. The forest just crackles in response, louder each time. From the shadows, the big animals, the ones who supposedly matter, the elephant, the tiger, the bear, watch like jaded spectators. They heckle. They lecture.'