What a love-fool would do . . .
Wednesday, July 8, 2026. It's Odin's day … Southerlies return to Green Country today, bringing a heat index of 107º this afternoon to TulseyTown.
Laughter is carbonated holiness. – Anne Lamott
Today is the birthdate of psychiatrist and writer Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. A pioneer in the study of death and dying, she was born on this day in 1926 Zurich, Switzerland.
Author Shirley Ann Grau was born on this day in 1929 New Orleans.
ICE is worse than ever. – Robert Reich, substack, 7.8.26
Trump's approach to gun safety is like writing a report on flood safety never mentioning the rain. He gives veto power to the NRA. And even law-abiding gun owners are worried he's gone too far. – Miles Taylor, Defiance.
Taylor Sheridan is an immediately recognizable name to the Paramount video drama nerds. Arguably the most gifted screenwriter/director/producer among the likes of Aaron Sorkin and David E. Kelley. If you're new or only vaguely familiar with Sheridan, he presently has 11 creations now streaming.
What a love-fool would do: Cultivate a Honeymoon Mind. – Sophie Strand, Make Me Good Soil, 7.6.26
Transcending time . . .
Tuesday, July 7, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . Summer forecasts have a habit of repeating themselves. Today's for Green Country are a good example: Sun, a few clouds, hot, humid, mid 90's afternoon. The only differences tend be where our breezes, if there are any, come from. Yesterday's easy Nor'easters are to continue in TulseyTown today.
Resentment is the compound interest on conversations you were too afraid to have. — Mark Manson.
While climate change makes extreme heat more dangerous, the Trump administration is fighting to remove or alter national park signs and exhibits that tell the truth about the crisis unfolding around us. The efforts are part of a broader push to censor national park materials about climate change, slavery, Indigenous history, immigration, racism, and other essential parts of the American story. That is not public service. It is political censorship. But, maybe, you knew that. If not, now you do.
Trump has taken to saying that those Americans calling for the government to maintain the rule of law to make sure the economic playing field is level, rather than working for corporations and the wealthy, are “communists.” So he is looking to put a thumb on the scale of the midterm elections as he did in the FIFA match and the economy. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Why Is He Using the Communist Trump Card? – Robert Reich, He's Run Out of Cards. Substack, 7.6.26
Today is the birthdate of historian and author David McCullough. The two time laureate of the Pulitzer and National Book Awards, he was born in 1933 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Marc Chagall was born on this day in 1887, Vitebsk, Belorussia, Russian Empire [now in Belarus]. The Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rather than on rules of pictorial logic. Predating Surrealism, his works were among the first expressions of psychic reality in modern art.
Its also the birthdate of science fiction writer (Stranger in a Strange Land) Robert Heinlein. born in 1907 Butler, Missouri.
And, composer and conductor Gustav Mahler was born on this day in1860 Kaliště, Bohemia. One of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, that position has sustained into today. He wrote some of the most intense, powerful and large scale symphonies in all of music history.
Mahler and Bernstein = Transcendence
Now is not somewhere else. . .
Monday, July 6, 2026. It's Moon day . . . easy Nor'easterlies and a return of heat are in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown today. Sunny and mid 90s with afternoon index in the upper 90's.
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though they thought it were somewhere else – Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
Today is the 91st birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism was born in 1935, Taktser, Tibet.
The Great 14th: Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama in His Own Words. Is an Emmy nominated film, available to stream until midnight on Friday, July 31, 2026. Following the link, you may be asked to subscribe to Tricycle. No charge for that. And you can unsubscribe.
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo was born on this day in 1907, Coyoacán, Mexico.
How to the begin the mending. – Robert Reich,Sunday Thought, 7.5.26
The Week Ahead. — Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Jus' sayin': What if business education began not with shareholder value, but with human and planetary flourishing? What if music appreciation began with the Stones and worked back to Gregorian Chants? What if art appreciation began with Hamnet and worked back to the Stone Age? What if Creative Writing 101 began with Brautigan, Ferlinghetti, and Billy Collins and worked back to the King James?