Not lost: Found . . .
Friday, June 5, 2026. It's Freya's day . . . Moderate Southerlies, clouds and upper 80's are in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown today. A slight chance for rain continues in a Summer pattern. Thunderstorms are in the forecasts for tomorrow.
It was the early evening of this day in 1968 that Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated.
The wheels are wobbling on the Trump administration bus. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Trump's power is whooshing away – Robert Reich, Trump Is (Almost) Over, 3.4.26
The Roberts Court’s derogation of Americans’ voting rights will go down in history as a shameful failure. That is an especially damning distinction for a Court that already has much to answer for. They're leaving the door open for Trump's authoritarian attempt to control the vote.– Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse
Today is the 78th birthday of Laurie Anderson, born in 1947, Wayne, Illinois. An avant-garde artist, musician and filmmaker, her work encompasses masterting a range of performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.
Federico García Lorca was born today in 1898, Fuente Vaqueros, Granada province, Spain one of the most important Spanish poets and dramatists of the twentieth century.
And, poet and novelist David Wagoner, was born on this day in 1926 Massillon, Ohio.
Lost
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
– David Wagoner, “Lost.” From Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems. University of Illinois Press. 1999.
On The Way to Paradox . . .
Thursday, June 4, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . Moderate Southerlies bring slight rain chances to TulseyTown today. Partly cloudy with upper 80s are in the afternoon forecasts for Green Country.
For how many years have you gone through the house shutting windows, while the rain was still five miles away? – Mary Oliver, “From the Book of Time,” in The Leaf and The Cloud, De Capo Press, 2000.
Scott Pelley decided his job wasn’t worth his soul. Going forward, he will be the role model for every journalist worthy of the name and who must now practice this mantra: “What would Pelley do?” – Miles Taylor, Defiance.
Here's a NYTimes video that might help with any curiosity about James Talarico and his Senate campaign in Texas.
Thousands of people packed into a room Monday evening in Plano, Texas – a North Dallas suburb – to hear Talarico on Ken Paxton’s home turf.
Robert Reich's 3 biggest worries about the midterm elections … and what we can do about them.
The Academy and Golden Globe laureate Angelina Jolie is 51 today. She was born in 1975, Los Angeles, California.
The path on The Way.
Letting go isn’t an action to perform but a result of practice and insight. It's not about giving up or moving on, which is impossible if we think the self is the one who must do it, but inevitable once we see that the self’s claim to be the unbinder is only an appearance. In that collapse, openness reveals itself as already present. seeing through the illusory nature of a fixed self and watching acceptance and compassion arise. It's a practice because as humans we will inevitably find ourselves grasping at something else we would rather “let go.” – from “The Paradox of Letting Go” by Ronald E Purser, Tricycle, May 2026.
Maps are not the territory . . .
Wednesday, June 3, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . moderate Southerlies bring slight rain chances to TulseyTown today. Mid 80's are in the forecasts for Green Country.
love is what you are, not something you find, earn, or lose
Today is a good reminder that elections start way before November. The choices made in primaries shape everything that comes after. The most important thing you can do is stay informed and stay registered. Check your status, find your polling place, and pass it on to someone who might not know theirs.
Re-reminding: Oklahoma Governor & Superintendent Candidate forums begin today and Thursday, June 4 at TU's Lorton Center. Doors and reception begins at 5pm. A Tulsa Press Club led Q&A starts at 6pm. Could be a packed house. Admission is free both dates.
In a U-turn in the right direction, Trump has signed an Executive Order seeking oversight of A.I.
And another move in the wrong direction: If you thought Tulsi Gabbard was a problem. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
And yet, more . . . “60 Minutes” is being “murdered,” as correspondent Scott Pelley called what’s happening at CBS,not because of economics but because of politics. Economically, is a goldmine. Politically, it’s dangerous as hell to Trump. – Robert Reich, 06.03.26
CBS fired Pelly yesterday.
Speaking of “60 Minutes,” Anderson Cooper is 59 today, born in 1967 New York City. He quit “60 Minutes.”
It's the 100th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's birth. One of the 20th century's most influential poets, and regarded as a founding father of the Beat Movement, he was born on this day in 1926 Newark, New Jersey.
The Pulitzer laureate for Lonesome Dove, author Larry McMurtry was born today in 1936 Wichita Falls, Texas.
120 years ago today, Josephine Baker was born in 1906 St. Louis, Missouri. The American-born French dancer and singer symbolized the beauty and vitality of Black American culture, which took Paris by storm in the 1920s.
Today is the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
In 1992 a lawsuit was decided on this day in favor of Torres Strait Islander peoples and Aboriginal peoples establishing land rights for all Indigenous peoples in Australia.
It is important to reassure each other that these terrible times will end. More Americans are seeing through the lies as well as the cruelty and corruption. They’re deciding they want this daymare to end, peacefully, and are committed to rebuilding and rectifying the nation. – Robert Reich, You're Not Alone, Nor Crazy.