Waiting on certainty . . .
Wednesday, July 29, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . and the moon is full. Green Country forecasts remain in the “rinse repeat” cycle. Moderate Southerlies, mostly clear, hot, sunny skies. The TulseyTown afternoon is to bake in the upper 90's with an index of 109º.
“Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.” ~I Ching
Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal into the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marqis.
The twice named U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize awardee Stanley Kunitz was born today in 1905 Worcester, Massachusetts.
The first part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings was published today in 1954.
And, Don Marquis born in 1878 Walnut, Illinois.The newspaperman, poet, and playwright created the literary characters Archy, the cockroach, and Mehitabel, the cat, — wry, down-and-out philosophers of the 1920’s.
Today in 1957, The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) came into full official force.
NASA was established on this day in 1958.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dag Hammarskjöld was born on this date in 1905 Jönköping, Sweden.
And, Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805 Paris, France. He published the classic Democracy in America.
an idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it....you want to know whether i believe in ghosts, of course i do not believe in them. if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe in them either.
―Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel, first published in 1927 by Doubleday, Page & Company. Current edition publisher is Anchor, 1970.
Don't just do something. Wait for it.
Random strangers want to know . . .
Tuesday, July 28, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . another hot, humid Okieland Summer day. Forecasts for Green Country indicate moderate Southerlies, real temperature of 100. An index of 110º is forecast for the afternoon in TulseyTown .
Are you willing to allow love to have Its Way with you? It's the nature of “The Way.” We can try to choose to swim against the stream. An insistence that there is such a choice can create a tsunami of our life. “The Way” has its way. Ruminating on “should” is an attempt to avoid the “what.”
Japan was hit by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake this morning. Early tsunami warnings were lifted after the quake. Significant damage but no deaths reported as of this hour (8:30 a.m. CDT).
Today is the birthday of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, born in 1929 Southampton, New York.
The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was born today in 1844, Stratford, Essex, England.
It's also the birthdate of the poet John Ashbery born in1927 Rochester, New York.
Italian conductor Riccardo Muti is 84 today, born in 1941 Naples, Italy. One of the most respected and charismatic conductors of his generation, he is currently the conductor emeritus of the Chicagy Symphony Orchestra among several other organized musical institutions.
World War I began on this day in 1914.
Trump keeps toying with the big-B Bomb. The man may want to detonate something very big. Pray that it's more likely to be his own presidency than a nuclear weapon. – Miles Taylor, Defiance, 2.27.26
He has no clue what he's doing in the Saudi nuclear deal. – Lisa Needham, Daily Kos, 7.24.26
The questions from random strangers. And my answer. – Robert Reich, substack today.
The question is not whether things will change. The question is how. For Americans, the answer is either reform or catastrophe. I believe we are prepared to choose reform, to build something better before we're forced by the current status quo into disasters beyond recovery. But reform requires effort. It never arises on its own. It happens when enough people decide that the future will be different from the present and then do the work to make it so. – Pete Buddigieg (7.27.26 email).
Shoulder taps . . .
Monday, July 27, 2026. It's the Moon's day . . . The Summertime bake-off continues in Green Country today. Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate moderate Southerlies and a heat index rising to 109º by mid-afternoon and remaining in triple digits to late tonight.
Good questions: What part of me have I been ignoring? What truth keeps tapping on my shoulder? What is asking for my attention right now?
From the time he took office in January 2025, Trump and his cronies have not simply challenged laws or constitutional provisions. They have acted as if the Constitution doesn’t exist. That’s an important distinction. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American, posted last night for today.
This is no time to let down our guard or become overly confident about the coming midterm elections. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought, 7.26.26
The Week Ahead – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
And, its the birthday of novelist Bharati Mukherjee. The American/Canadian writer and Cal Berkeley professor was born in 1940 Calcutta, India.
My Revenge Era
In the movies, intruders murder a working man’s wife.
Saw-knuckled, half-mad, the working man
becomes a throwing star
. . .
Blood tastes like metal because it is metal.
...
– Laura Ruby, “My Revenge Era,” Rattle, 7.26.26