Everything is record-setting . . .
Sunday, May 31, 2026/ It's Sol's day . . . and indeed it is. Forecasts indicate sunny low 90's in TulseyTown's afternoon, along with strong Southerlies and a full Blue Moon.
The same Spirit that filled the mystic healers fills all who open their hearts….
Today is the birthdate of poet, journalist, and essayist Walt Whitman, born in 1819, West Hills, Long Island, New York. His verse collection Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, remains a landmark in the history of American literature, an epic celebration of humanity.
The Tulsa race massacre began on this day in 1921 It was one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in U.S. history lasting for two days. An estimated 300 people were killed, mostly African Americans, and Tulsa’s prosperous Black neighborhood of Greenwood , known as “Black Wall Street was destroyed.
Today is the anniversary in 1889 when America’s most powerful men caused the Johnstown Flood. It was the deadliest in the U.S. to date, with over 2,200 deaths .
This is a big deal. Truly an amazing exercise of justice. Robert Reich, Award for Courage, 5.30.26
Week One in 250 to 250. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American. 5.30.26
Clint Eastwood is 96 today, born in 1930 San Francisco, California.
What Clint does after hours.
The absence of an "again" is not a loss. It's an opening. The question isn't how we restore the past. The question is whether we have the courage and the clarity to build something better ...when we get the chance to build again, we should build something worthy of this moment – not a replica of what came before. – Pete Buttigieg
At the altar of busyness . . .
Saturday, May 30, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . . It's sweat-pants o'clock for a high humidity Summer-like day in TulseyTown and Green Country. Forecasts include slight rain chances, increasing cloudiness into the afternoon with strong Southerlies and low 90's.
Joy on the signpost indicates The Way to awakening.
We're living in a culture that worships at the altar of busyness. Most of us grew up following someone else's schedule — school bells, work deadlines, family needs — and somewhere along the way, we may have easily lost touch with what mattered most to us. If you don't prioritize your time, someone / something else will. And will fill it up REAL quick. – Marie Forleo
Watch your breath. Your brain will thank you.
… thinking makes it so … – Hamlet. A new study published in Geriatrics in 2026 by Yale researchers Becca Levy and Martin Slade showed that one of the most significant predictors of future brain health was the beliefs participants held about aging itself.
In Trump news:
Today in 2014 Donald Trump became the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime after a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with a hush-money payment in 2016 to the adult-film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels,
Trump has finally overplayed his hand. A federal judge in Virginia has temporarily blocked the administration from moving ahead with Trump's controversial $1.8 billion fund that could give apologies and/or money to people who believe they were wrongly investigated. It's on hold until at least a June 12th hearing. – Robert Reich, The Final Straw, 5.29.26
Today is the feast day for St. Joan of Arc born c.1412, Domrémy, Bar, France.
Other worlds for hard days. – Sophie Strand, Make Me Good Soil, 25.29.26
And, its the birthdate of the “King of Swing” jazz band leader, clarinet virtuoso Benny Goodman. He was born in 1909, Chicago, Illinois.
For Goodman, there was only one way. If you can't … don't.
Beastly sanity . . .
Friday, May 29, 2026. It's Freya's day . . . A cloudy start to the day. There is a 50/50 chance for thunderstorms developing this afternoon. Winds are to be Southerly, moderate, but gusty in any stray storm. Upper 80’s are forecasted for TulseyTown and Green Country.
Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way. – Yasunari Kawabata
Now treating the nation’s capital as his property, Trump appears to be leaning on his past role as a real estate developer as a solution in Iran remains elusive, inflation in the U.S. climbs, and his popularity drops. – Heather Cox Richardson, in today's Letters From An American.
Trump and E. Jean Carroll. Trump’s vengeance is totally unhinged. – Robert Reich, 5.29.26
Is E. Jean Carroll being “investigated,” or not? – Joyce Vance, in today's Civil Discourse.
Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du Printemps — The Rite of Spring — premiered tonight in 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Rumor has it there was a riot. The rumor became a highly successful marketing meme.
President John F. Kennedy was born on this day in 1917, Brookline, Massachusetts.
The brilliant orator and a major figure of the American Revolution, Patrick Henry, was born in 1736, Studley, Virginia.
Today is also the birthdate of Bob Hope. The British-born American comedian was born in 1903 Eltham, near London, England. Inaddition to his famous comedic skills, he was also an actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years with achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours. He appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, starring in 54,
And G.K. Chesterton was born today in 1874, London, England. He was a sharp-witted English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories. He made his points with wit and paradox, and in such a large body of work, there is no shortage of quotable material. If you don't know him, you ought.
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. But the materialist’s world is quite simple and solid, just as the madman is quite sure he is sane. – G.K. Chesterston, Orthodoxy, Ignatius Press. 1908.