Following fall . . .
Sunday, September 20, 2026. It's truly Sol's day . . . Fall officially begins Tuesday, the Autumnal Equinox … Today's forecasts indicate the transition begins today. TulseyTown and GreenCountry are to spend the day in much cooler conditions of those under the recent heat dome. Most of the day is to be spent in the mid-upper 80's with moderate Southerlies. The weatherfeather indicates a 40% chance for rain afternoon.
Today is the birthday of U.S. Poet Laureat, editor, and literary critic Donald Hall, born in 1928 Hamden, Connecticut.
Muckraking documentarian author Upton Sinclair was born on this day in 1878 Baltimore, Maryland.
Five Years, Today – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought.
Iran says it will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until President Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu are removed from power...and Trump is losing “it.” – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Returning to The Sermon on the Mount. Where can we find a philosophy today that embraces the unconditional, nondiscriminatory love that includes our enemies? Within the “christian” tradition, only the Fransicans truly celebrate it, while others give lip-service. The “interspiritual traditions” as outlined by Fr. Rohr and Mirabi Starr individually and collectively have this same radical love at its core, as does the manifestation of Buddhist contemplation/meditation. Communities help. Solo practitioners are welcome. See you online. — Jus'sayin'
Dreaming of the Autumnal Equinox
–after Rilke and in memory of Thich Nhat Hanh
Sometimes songs seem to come from
the heat of the outside edge of the world.
Inheriting the coming autumn, the memories of poets
and all the Summers where images are gathered
are given back to that eternity. Songsters, poets
painters, sculptors live the enduring feminine alone
bringing suffering along with laughter, as do lovers:
those poets of one brief hour. We who create do so
in the name of the longing unnamable,
searching for the face we had before the one
we see in the mirror contradicting our intentions.
To them we give ourselves; blind, deaf and mute,
unable to supress the best of our things and thoughts
filling tearful eyes as we awake
in stranger's arms.
– jab
When the impossible changed . . .
09/19/26. It's the Satyr's day . . . One more hot day is in the forecasts for GreenCountry and TulseyTown. Sun, Southerlies and another afternoon in the 100's. Change arrives tomorrow evening with possible rain and cooler temperatures.
On September 17, 1787, what the world thought impossible, was done. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Today in 1893 New Zealand gave all women, including Māori women, the right to vote in national elections. New Zealand was the first self-governing country in the world to enfranchise women. The U.S. got around to it seventy years later in 1920.
Eight policy solutions to protect voting rights. From the Brennan Center for Justice.
Universal Media is looking to bury it's already paid for documentary about Musk. So is Comcast.
Historians call it “anticipatory obedience.” — Miles Taylor, in Defiance.
And, today is the birthdate of the Nobel laureate William Golding born in 1911, Newquay, Cornwall, England. The novelist is best known for Lord of the Flies.
An open invitation — Chaos in the Court: Previewing the Upcoming Supreme Court Term. Live Zoom session, Tuesday, September 29, 3 pm Central, Sponsored by People for the American Way. Free but requires registration.
As the world turns . . .
Friday, September 18, 2026. It's Freya's day … two and a half more hot days for GreenCountry and TulseyTown. At this eight-o’clock hour, forecasts call for a cooling beginning Sunday late afternoon.
Inquiring minds want to know: Trump's worst fear. – Robert Reich, Substack, posted yesterday
Canada is showing the world how to defy Donald Trump. – Miles Tayor, Defiance,
Today is the birthdate of Samuel Johnson, born in 1709, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. The English critic, biographer, essayist, poet, and lexicographer, was regarded as one of the greatest figures of 18th-century life and letters.
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was born on this date in 1819 Paris. The French physicist is best known for the invention of the Foucault Pendulum which demonstrates the earth's rotation.
In 1851, the first edition of The New York Times was published. Recognized as the world's “journal of record,” it still publishes with the masthead declaration “All the news that's fit to print.”
Greta Garbo was born on this day in 1905 Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedish American actress was one of the most glamorous and popular motion-picture stars of the 1920s and ’30s.
And the innovative choreographer and dancer Agnes de Mille was also born on this same day, but in 1905 New York.