Nothin' but blue skies . . .
Monday, May 11, 2026 at 6:45a.m. It's the Moon's day . . . Near calm Easterlies, sunny skies and low 80's are in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown today.
Mothers’ Day was not designed to encourage people to be nice to their mothers. It was part of women’s effort to gain power to change society. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.
The concept and human experience of mother is so primal, so big, deep, universal, and wide … it is far too small a container. Julian of Norwich thought so. – Mirabai Starr, in Meditations, at The Center for Action and Contemplation.
The world’s oldest book bearing a specific date of publication, The Diamond Sutra, was printed on this day in the year 868 A.D. It is a collection of many Buddha's teachings. “Sutra” is a sanskrit term meaning “teaching.”
One of America’s most well-regarded physicists, Richard Feynman, was born on this day in 1918, New York City.
Today is also the birth date of Salvador Dalí. The Spanish multi-disciplinary surrealist was born in 1904, Figueras, Spain.
And, it's the birthday of Irving Berlin. Born Israel Baline in 1888 Tyumen, Russia, he was and remains one of America's greatest and enduring songwriters. We still recognize and sing many out of the hundreds of songs he composed.
Skies are blue over TulseyTown at this 8:30 a.m. hour.
Spontaneous Acquiescence . . .
Sunday, May 10, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . Moderate to strong Northerlies are in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown today. Generally cloudy and near 70º for a cool afternoon after a light morning gentle rain.
From love, to love, for love.
Today is Mother's Day.
Once More Round The Moon
For my mother, always two jobs, two stories, / two worlds even, in one movement, /
love and need and nothing / now or ever to separate the two.
– David Whyte, “Once More Around The Moon,” From Everything Is Waiting For You, Many Rivers Press, 2022.
My mother's crazy optimism. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought.
Today is the birthday of Fred Astaire, born in 1899, Omaha, Nebraska. Regarded by many as the greatest popular-music dancer of all time, particularly in motion pictures where he was accompanied by another gifted dancer, Ginger Rogers. She was quoted as having said “I dance the same steps as Fred, only backward and in heels.” The pair were unequaled.
Bono is 66 today. The lead singer for the popular Irish rock band U2 and a prominent human rights activist was born in 1960, Dublin, Ireland..
Spontaneous Acquiescence
Every point you find impenetrable in the realm of navigating The Way is just your own mind making obstacles. Complete spontaneous acquiescence – [quiet assent to the present moment] – is the proper attitude for studying The Way. It doesn't matter if it takes five, twenty, or thirty years. In the space of spontaneous acquiescence you'll be naturally at peace without the slightest bit of doubt or confusion. It may come, go, and come again, but it's the only Way – Zhongfeng Mingben (Chinese) Chungfeng Ming-pen (Japanese).
It's a state of mind . . .
Saturday, May 9, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . . Moderate Southerlies, sunny skies and mid 80's are in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown. There's a chance for thunderstorms tomorrow morning early, before sunrise chases them away.
In case you were wondering what kind of news day yesterday was, Heather Cox Richichardson fills us in, in Letters From An American.
Another in the “truly great” film categories, Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Vertigo, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, premiered in San Francisco. It remains widely regarded as one of the greatest movies ever.
Laureate stage and film actor Albert Finney was born today in 1936, Salford, Lancashire [now in Greater Manchester], England.
It's the birthday of the creator of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie, born in 1860, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland.
Poet and essayist Charles Simic was born on this day in 1938 Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
And, The Piano Man, Billy Joel, is 79 today, born in 1949, Bronx, New York. The only state of mind he's ever been in.