Fishing with chickens . . .
Sunday, August 9, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . at 8:30 a.m. another cool morning ahead of a hot afternoon. Moderate Southwesterlies with a 107º index are in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown.
There is a voice within you that no one, not even you, has ever heard. Give yourself the opportunity of silence and begin the develop youe listening in order to hear, deep within yourself, the music of your own spirit. – John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book Celtic Wisdom. Harper, 1997.
Jesus never once quoted from nineteen of the books in his own Hebrew scriptures. In fact, he used a very few favorites, ignoring most of his own Bible. Yet, it clearly formed his whole consciousness. . .Not all Scriptures were created equal in his mind, which is a great blind spot for most fundamentalists.-- Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.
Today in 1854, Henry David Thoreau published his seminal document narrative Walden, Or Life In The Woods.
Mystery writer Jonathan Kellerman is 77 today. The author of When the Bough Breaks, was born in 1949 New York City.
The poet/novelist Philip Larkin was born today in 1922 Coventry, England.
The author Izaak Walton, was born on this day in 1593 Stafford, England. His book The Compleat Angler, remains in print after 370+ years.
The souls of animals. – Maria Popova, The Marginalian.
Deserving of chickens. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Cowboys and Coca-Cola . . .
Saturday, August 8, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . . after a cool morning, another hot afternoon is in the forecasts for Green Country. Easy Southerlies and a 108º index. are expected in TulseyTown’s afternoon.
The time we live in is a fertile ground for practice in being open-minded and open-hearted. – Pema Chödrön
Today is the day in 1963 of the Great Train Robbery near London.
Ernest Orlando Lawrence born in 1901, Canton, South Dakota. physicist, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of the cyclotron, the first particle accelerator to achieve high energies. He founded the Berkeley Lab at UCal Berkeley in 1931.
Yesterday was the day in 1947 that Thor Heyerdahl’s raft Kon-Tiki crashed into a reef in French Polynesia.
The poet Sara Teasdale was born today in 1884, St. Louis, Missouri.
Heartbreak is unpreventable. – David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, Many Rivers Press.
And, it’s the birthdate of Mel Tillis. The singer and writer of hundreds of country music songs.was born tday in 1932, Dover, Florida.
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.