War: What's it good for?
Thursday, June 25, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . Morning thunderstorms are in the forecasts for Green Country, ending into the Summertime 15% chance range with partly cloudy skies by late afternoon. Moderate Southerlies and mid 80's.
When we stand at the crossroads not knowing which way to go, we abide in an important place in the training of a warrior. It’s where our solid views begin to dissolve. – Pema Chödrön, A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, Shambhala, 2018.
Four years ago, the Supreme Court set women's health, not just abortion rights, back decades. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse and The Contrarian.
English novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell was born on this day in 1903 in Motihari, British India.
. . . the U.S. has no significant leverage over Iran … Trump has been lying for months now, but as the magnitude of the loss becomes clearer, the lies will likely grow larger. – Phillips P. O’Brien, cited by Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
The Korean War began on this day in 1950.
Today in 1876 Custer took his last stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory.
The devil you say . . .
Wednesday, June 24, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . Rain and more rain remains in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown until Friday.
Today in 1947, American businessman Kenneth Arnold saw a number of objects “flying like saucers” while piloting a small plane over Mount Rainier in Washington. It is considered the first modern sighting of UFOs and gave rise to the term flying saucer.
The novelist Anita Desai is 89 today. The MIT Professor of Humanities was born in 1937 Mussoorie, India.
Stephen Dunn was born today. The multi-laureate poet was born in 1939 Forest Hills, New York.
Poet John Ciardi was born in 1916 Little Italy in Boston’s North End.
It’s Ambrose Bierce’s birthdate. The author of The Devil’s Dictionary, he was born in 1842 Horse Cave Creek, Meigs County, Ohio.
The First Amendment is under a very real and sustained assault. – Miles Taylor, Defiance, 6.23.26
This morning, 101 former judges filed a complaint, asking the New York State Bar Attorney Grievance Commission to “initiate an investigation into Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
“...a sense of impending mortality seems to be making our president even more unhinged than ever.” – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American,
Wave ashore: the birth of Ondine. – Jeff Krasno, Dairies of a Dance Dad.
When Pooh gets “bothered” . . .
Tuesday, June 23, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . at 7 a.m. forecasts for Green Country indicated moderate chances of thunderstorms in TulseyTown's afternoon and evening. Cloudy and cool conditions near 80º.
Hmm..what's for breakfast?
Most of us meet most bad moments with a racing mind, a tight chest, and a running list of everything that could go wrong next. That's a disregulated nervous system at work. It doesn't have to be that way: Something else goes wrong – the honey's gone, it's raining again, Eeyore's lost his tail. And the worst Pooh musters is a soft "oh, bother." Then he carries on. Always present, unhurried, completely himself. – Nick Ortner, atThe Tapping Solution.
The poet Anna Akhmatova was born today in 1889, Bolshoy Fontan, near Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire. She is recognized as the greatest woman poet in Russian literature history.
It's the birthdate of Alfred Kinsey. The zoologist and student of human sexual behavior was born in 1894, Hoboken, New Jersey .
Novelist (The Killer Angels) Michael Shaara was born on this day in 1928 Jersey City, New Jersey
More and more is it clear that the Trump administration is mired in its own mistakes. Heather Cox Richardson in today's Letters From An American.
Democrats must take on America's oligarchs. – Robert Reich, substack, 6.23.26
Living in harmony with the Tao champions nature’s simplicity and beauty. It encourages us to embrace the balance of opposites within the whole. Thousands of years of meditation and practices such as qigong and Tai'Chi leads to an understnding that effort without struggle and strife is possible. With practice we align with the transformational processes of life. Tao is the nameless and the named, the Source and the manifest, the subtle and the bounded. It tells us to be like water, which flows to the lowest places and nourishes all things. Softness is the source of its strength.