Rejecting convention. . .

Sunday, May 17, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . 8:30 a.m. Starting out sunny, forecasts for Green Country indicate overcast skies developing over TulseyTown by afternoon, along with strong, gusty Southerlies and upper 80s (again). Rain chances increase overnight.

The fundamental delusion of human-kind is that there is a self separated from all other “things.” The Earth is held in its perfect orbit and distance from the sun by all the gravitational forces of the universe, which, by the way, are also beating our hearts and breathing us. If we need to have faith in something, perhaps that will do. – Peter Coyote, “Welcome to Delusionville” Tricycle Magazine.

On this day in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The unanimous ruling stated that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees equal protection of the laws to all citizens.

170 million women (and an unknown number of men) are likely to be glad of this: PCOS has a new name, published in The Lancet Medical Journal with a much better approach to diagnosis.

And, its the birthdate of Erik Satie born in 1866, Honfleur, Calvados, France. A unique classical composer, his compositions successfully rejected musical convention and were a precursor to modern ambient music,

Dance with Apollo if you dare.

All the time . . .

Saturday, May 16, 2026. It's the Satyr's day at 9:30 a.m. . . . More warming in the TulseyTown forecasts for the afternoon hours. Strong, gusty Southerlies and upper 80's are indicated.

Since there is nothing but just this moment, the time-being is all the time there is. – Dogen\

Trump accusing Democrats of fraud will accomplish the political goal of muddying the waters [by accusing their opponents of the very crimes they themselves are committing] to make it harder for voters to see that the Trump administration is the most corrupt U.S. administration in history.-- Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

How to Describe this Catastrophe? – Robert Reich, online 5.15.26

Forgetting about Jeffrey Epstein? – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

Today is the birthday of writer, historian, and radio man Studs Terkel, born in 1912 New York City.

Henry Fonda was born on this day in 1905 Grand Island, Nebraska. The Academy laureate made more than 90 films in his career.

The closer we are to the source of the productions of time—that is, to the eternal—the more easily we understand the particular currents we must navigate on any given day. – David Whyte, “Escaping the Prison of Time and Work,” 5.15.26

It's still mothers' days . . .

Friday, May 15, 2026. It's Frigg's day . . .At 7:30 a.m. forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown indicate good thunderstorm chances before Noon. Afternoon clouds and mid 80's.

Love, running full speed downhill wearing a blindfold.

Mothering is a verb. – Sophie Strand, Make Me Good Soil, 5.12.26

One of the hardest realizations in life, and one of the most liberating, is that our mothers are neither saints nor saviors — they are just people who, however messy or painful our childhood may have been, and however complicated the adult relationship, have loved us the best way they knew how, with the cards they were dealt and the tools they had. It is a whole life’s work to accept this elemental fact, and a life’s triumph to accept it not with bitterness but with love. – Maria Popova, The Marginalian, 5.13.26.

The wisdom teachers of every tradition seem to agree that action and contemplation are interdependent....by speaking and writing about the teachings of the mystics, I am contributing just as much to peace on earth as any act of civil disobedience in which others engage. – Mirabai Starr, From the Monastery to the Marketplace, online, 5.12.26

Today is the birthdate of Madeleine Albright, born in 1937 Prague, Czechoslovakia. She was the first woman to hold the cabinet post of U.S. Secretary of State and was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

The author of The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, was born on this day in 1856 Chittenango, New York.

Emily Dickinson died at the age of 55 on this date in 1886, Amherst.

Because I could not stop for Death –

Because I could not stop for Death

He kindly stopped for me –

The Carriage held but just Ourselves –

And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste

And I had put away

My labor and my leisure too,

For His Civility –

We passed the School, where Children strove

At Recess – in the Ring –

We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –

We passed the Setting Sun –

Or rather – He passed Us –

The Dews drew quivering and Chill –

For only Gossamer, my Gown –

My Tippet – only Tulle –

We paused before a House that seemed

A Swelling of the Ground –

The Roof was scarcely visible –

The Cornice – in the Ground –

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet

Feels shorter than the Day

I first surmised the Horses' Heads

Were toward Eternity –

– Emily Dickenson, “Because I could not stop for Death – (479)” Martha Dickinson Bianchi, 1914.