Truer stories . . .
Friday, August 7, 2026, It's Frigg's day . . . The Summer pattern continues with 15-20% chance of a thunderstorm in the forecasts for Green Country. Moderate Southerlies, sun/clouds, 100's on the charts for TulseyTown.
Anthropologist and archeologist Louis Leakey was born on this day in 1903 Kabete, Kenya.
It’s Stan Freberg’s birthdate. The media executive and satirist was born in 1926 Pasadena, California.
Film writer/director Nicholas Ray was born on this day in 1911, Galesville, Wisconsin. He is remembered as the director of Rebel Without a Cause starring James Dean.
And, Mata Hari was born today in 1876, Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
Sixty-one years ago yesterday, on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. Heather Cox Richardson reflected on the moment in her Letters From An American.
The Democratic Party isn’t being taken over by Democratic Socialists. There’s no civil war between progressives and moderates. This isn’t about Israel or Netanyahu. We aren’t witnessing an ideological battle between the “left” and the “center.” We’re seeing America wake up. – Robert Reich The Real Meaning of El-Sayed's Victory.
For too long, America has treated the peaceful transfer of power as a laundering operation. The outgoing ruler departs. The incoming ruler blesses continuity. The nation congratulates itself for avoiding unpleasantness. Files close. Memoirs appear. Contractors move on. The architecture of abuse remains standing for the next occupant. Enough. A republic does not become vindictive when it subjects its former rulers to the same law that governs everyone else. It becomes a republic at last. No more American Caesars. – Ray Pearcy,
Make my body and life the soil that grows love stories. – Sophie Strand, Make Me Good Soil, 8.5.26
The story of Stan, Cavett, John and Yoko.
Enlightenment can be slow in coming . . .
Thursday, August 6, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . Another hot Summer day in Okieland, much like yesterday. Forecasts indicate heat index of 107º by late afternoon in TulseyTown. Sun and clouds, moderate Southerlies, real temperatures in the low 100's, with 90's this evening until near midnight.
If you understand by thinking and know by pondering, you're a thousand miles away. There are no words for “The Way.” That said (with words) the Zen masters use words to illustrate it. – Wu -chein
81 years ago today in 1945 the United States of American dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hirishoma during World War II. It was the first use of atomic weapons in war. A second atomic attack came three days later, on August 9th, on the city of Nagasaki.
Today is also the birthdate of Pulitzer Prize historian Richard Hofstadter, born in 1916 Buffalo, New York.
The English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was born on this day in 1809, Somersby, Lincolnshire, England.
Yesterday Wendell Berry turned 92. The novelist/poet was born near Port Royal, in 1934 Henry County, Kentucky.
It was also yesterday in 1957 that Dick Clark’s American Bandstand opened its first national broadcast, introducing rock 'an' roll to millions of American teenagers.
We're doing nothing about three worsening crises that threaten the very survival of America and the world. – Robert Reich, The Cost of Trump.
No matter where you are from or what your beliefs are, a new weltanschauung is emerging world wide that is based in relationship, reciprocity, and sufficiency. – Lynn Twist, “What It Means To Be Human,” The Soul of Money. This “new” world-view is, I think, less new and more a welcome re-assertion of community/democratic values – jab “jus'sayin.” See also: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft.
Enlightened atheists. – Mirabai Starr, 7.21.26
The wonderful vast . . .
Tuesday, August 4, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . 100 degree heat is back in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown today. Another humid Okieland Summer day with sun, some clouds, with a mid-afternoon index of 104º.
The Great Way is always present, though its presence is hard to see. Sound and form, words and speech are themselves part of the Great Way. The realm of reality is as vast as Cosmic Space. It is the knowing mind of sentient beings that is small. – Pao-chih
Today is the 65th birthday of author Barack Obama, our 44th President. He was born in 1961 Honolulu, Hawaii.
It's also the birthdate of jazz musician Louis Armstrong, born in 1901 in “The Battlefield,” near Storyville, New Orleans.
Poet and essayist Percy Bysshe Shelley was also born on this day, in 1792 Field Place, Sussex, England.
And, Poet Laureate and educator Robert Hayden was born in 1913 Detroit, Michigan.
The $1.776b Slush Fund Isn't As Dead As Senators Cornyn And Tillis Seem To Be Willing To Believe. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
The stink should cling to any candidate he's supporting. – Robert Reich, The Stink of Musk. 8.3.26