The heart has its reasons . . .
Friday, June 19, 2026. It's Freya's day . . . Forecasts for Green Country indicate moderate Southeasterlies maintaining a mostly cloudy day in the mid 80's in TulseyTown.
. . . all the things the world tells you are “inefficiencies” are where life actually happens. – attributed to Kurt Vonnegut.
Today is Juneteenth, an annual observance on June 19 to remember when Union soldiers enforced the Emancipation Proclamation and freed all remaining slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865. Now a federal holiday, the annual observace has become an opportunity for people to celebrate freedom and equal rights in the United States.
The truth about Trump and Juneteenth. – Robert Reich, substack, 6.16.26
[Trump and his minions] trying to dictate a new global order seem brittle and breaking, while the momentum has shifted back to the American people. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American, posted for today.
Today is the birthdate of Blaise Pascal. The mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher was born in 1623 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
French Impressionist painter and sculptor Edgar Degas was born on this day in 1834, Paris, France .
Salman Rushdie is 79 today. The novelist was born in 1947 Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of . . .We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart. — Blaise Pascal, Pensées
Noisy wings . . .
Thursday, June 18, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . Gusty Nor'Easterlies are forecast to bring heavy rains to Green Country today. Morning storms are to end in the early afternoon. Cooler, in the upper 70's, in TulseyTown.
Today in 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte met his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, in Belgium – among the most significant events in European history along with the world wars.
“He's mad, you know. The weirdest and most astonishing day in US foreign policy in decades.” – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Trump's strategy for the 2026 Midterms requires us to prepare now. – Robert Reich, substack, 6.18.26
Today is the birthdate of Nelson Mandela, born in 1918, Mvezo, South Africa. After years of incarceration, on his release he helped end his country’s apartheid system of racial segregation.
Astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn was born today, in 1921 Cambridge,Ohio.
The journalist and author who created the genre known as gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson, was also born on this day, in 1937, Louisville, Kentucky.
And, Sir Paul McCartney is 84 today, born in 1942 Liverpool, England.
Livin’ and dyin’ in three-quarter-time.
Start where you are . . .
Wednesday, June 17, 2026, It's Odin's day . . . Guten Morgen: Sunny, warm mid 90's and strong Southerlies are in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown.
What you do for yourself—any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself—will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. What you do for yourself, you’re doing for others, and what you do for others, you’re doing for yourself. Meditating on this reality, it becomes increasingly uncertain what is out there and what is in here. – Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are, Shambhala Press, 2018.
Would you give up your right to vote? – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Menopause and spirituality: Gabby Bernstein in conversation with Jeff Krasno.
Today is the birthdate of James Weldon Johnson. An important figure in the Harlem Renaissance he was also a diplomat, writer, poet and civil rights leader
Barry Manilow is 83 today. The songwriter/singer was born in 1943 New York City. His present concert tour has him in Reading, Pennsylvania tonight.
Russian composer Igor Stravinsky was born on this day in 1882 Oranienbaum, Russia. He was one of the most important and influential figures in twentieth-century classical music. Most notably: Ballet scores for “The Rite of Spring,” “The Firebird,” and “Petrushka,” with Sergei Diaghilev, owner of the Ballets Russes ballet company.