The without within . . .
Thursday, July 2, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . forecasts for Green Country appear to have been Xeroxed from yesterday: another hot and humid day for TulseyTown. Moderate Southerlies, sun and clouds, and a heat index in the 100's mid afternoon.
Every day you play with the light of the universe. – Pablo Neruda.
What should have been a simple unanimous, open and shut decision was dangerously close. Supremes: Summary. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Thurgood Marshall civil rights activist, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was born in 1908, Baltimore, Maryland.
Today in 1937 the airplane piloted by American aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean during her attempt to fly around the world.
Nobel Prize laureate in literature, poet Wisława Szymborska was born on this day in 1923 Prowent, Poland 1966.
And, today is the birthdate of Herman Hesse. The Nobel Laureate author of Siddhartha – the life of Buddha – was born in 1877 Cawl, Germany.
“The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.” – Herman Hesse, Siddhartha. First published in 1922. As of its hundredth anniversary in 2022, it had sold more than four million copies in the United States alone.
The great paradox of personhood is that the sum is simpler than its parts. We move through the world as a totality, fragmentary but indivisible, clothed in a costume of personality beneath which roil parts perpetually … yearning for harmony. – Maria Popova, “Living in Unison,” The Marginalian,
There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters. – D.H. Lawrence, Apocalypse, this edition: Penguin Books. 1996,
The exciting age we live in . . .
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
It's Odin's day . . . Strong Southerlies are forecasted to bring another hot, humid day to Green Country. TulseyTown is likely to see an afternoon heat index in the low 100's.
Today is the birthdate of Princess Diana. The consort (1981–96) of Prince Charles and mother of Princes William and Harry was born in 1961 at Park House, Sandringham, England. Her 1997 death caused a massive outpouring of grief around the world.
Twyla Tharp is 85 today. The dancer, director, choreographer was known for her innovative and often humorous was was born in 1941, Portland, Indiana; Pulitzer Prize novelist Jean Stafford was born on this day in 1915 Covina, California; and it's also the birthdate of French novelist George Sand in 1804 Paris.
What Musk's New Net Worth Asks Of Us. – Soren, “The Trillionaire Stress Test,” Wisdom 2.0. 6.29.26
The new energy taking over the Democratic Party isn't Democratic Socialism. It's something far more exciting. – Robert Reich, The Next America.
The Age We Live In
. . .
I have stood nearly fifty years in this body,
long enough
to grow unashamed of want without trying
to make an art of it. Long enough to know
what I have each night
– Virginia Smith, “The Age We Live In,” Rattle, Issue #40, Summer, 2013.
In the past two months we have visited remembrances on Mother's and Father's day. For many of us, these anchors of our lives and personalities have left us with varying patterns of grief involving the experienced loss of wives, husbands, children, siblings and other family members and significant others, as well as the events of our world. We're a large group and growing for many. Grief is another word for loss, addressed by Mirabai Starr in a recent half-hour video post that examined the common “thresholds of grief.”
No one believes it's happening . . .
Tuesday, June 30, 2026. 8:30 a.m. CST. It's Tiw's day . . . another hot one in Green Country. Strong Southerlies, clear sunny skies and heat index temps in the low 100's are in the TulseyTown forecasts for the afternoon hours.
As the nation prepares to mark the 250th anniversary of our independence from a king, the Supreme Court and our current president are doing everything possible to resurrect a king in America. – Robert Reich, The End of Independent Agencies, substack, 6.29.26
Jus' sayin'
The time when you put normal life on hold as much as possible and focus your attention on saving the Republic? It’s now. Right now. Do not wait for something to be set on fire — America is already burning. Estimates made last year said we had fewer than 400 days. Today it's more more like 100 – Timothy Garton Ash, professor of European Studies emeritus at the University of Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. September 2025.
This past Friday, June 26, James Talarico delivered his official acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator from Texas at the Texas Democratic Convention held in Corpus Christi. It was one that could ring across the country. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American./june-28-2026
Sunday night at the Kennedy Center, Bill Maher was awarded this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Today in 1936 Margaret Mitchell's Civil War novel Gone with the Wind, was published. A Pulitzer Prize winner, more than 30 million copies of the novel have been printed worldwide. The 1939 film adaptation won ten Academy Awards.
Laureate awarded actor and singer Lena Horne was born on this day in 1917, Brooklyn, New York.
It's the birthday today of Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz. The Nobel Prize laureate was born in 1911 Szetejnie, Lithuania.
A Song on the End of the World
On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.
. . .
No one believes it is happening now.
Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet
Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
There will be no other end of the world,
There will be no other end of the world.
Warsaw, 1944
– Czeslaw Milosz, “A Song on the End of the World,” from The Collected Poems 1931-1987, Harper Collins. 1988.