The buzzzz . . .
Tuesday, May 19, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . A rainy day in Green Country. Morning thunderstorms give way to strong Northerlies and cloudy skies this afternoon. Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate tempertures falling throught the day into the 50's by sundown.
To be a writer is to write: To struggle through writing and editing, through periods where there is no inspiration. To outsource it to a machine or another person is a lie. A falsehood. A fraud.
Joyce Vance and Andrew Weissmann discuss the liars among us on Civil Discourse. A worthy half hour.
This week, the U.S. Senate will stage an argument so absurd it will be talked about for a thousand years. – Miles Taylor, Definance, 5.18.26
Trump's GOP is now a criminal enterprise. – Robert Reich, No Purpose But, 5.18.26
The United States of America was not founded as a Christian nation. The Founders were quite clear about that. Was not, is not. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Today is the birthday of Malcolm X, born in 1925, Omaha, Nebraska.
And, Blues musician Taj Mahal is 84 today. Born Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. in 1942 Harlem, New York. He grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts.
A queen bee buzzing its way in the streets of New Orleans.
The consequental “this.”
Monday, May 18, 2026. It's the Moon's day . . . A mid-80% chance for thunderstorms is in the forecasts for Green Country overnight tonight. Ahead of the storms, TusleyTown is to feel strong Southerlies beginning in the near 90º cloudy afternoon.
Some of the most consequential international work in America happens nowhere near Washington.
You can see it in play for yourself if you move your butt quickly: late this morning — Monday, May 18— at the OU Schusterman campus near 41st and Yale here in Tulsa. Richard Shackleton, the new British Consul General will be the guest of former Tulsa mayor Rodger Randle's Town Hall and public-policy series. The event starts at around 11:30 a.m. Doors open at 11. Apologies for the short notice. The event is free and open to the public. Find the main parking lot and look for direction signs (so I'm told). I'm indebted to my intellectual brother-from-another-mother, Ray Pearcey for this announcement.
The week ahead. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
The madman in charge. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought. 5.17.26
Today is the birthday of Bertrand Russell. The Nobel Prize philosopher was .born in 1872, Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales.
St. John Paul II was born on this day in 1920, Wadowice, Poland. Head of the Roman Catholic Church, from 1978 to 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years.
And it's the birthdate of one of the major influencers on the development of modern architecture, Walter Gropius. The architect, educator and director of the Bauhaus (1919–28), was born in 1883, Berlin, Germany.
The actress, comedian, entrepreneur Tina Fey is 56 today, born in 1970, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania .
Three-time winner of the Academy Award for Directing, Frank Capra was born on this day in 1897 Bisacquino, Sicily.
And, today in 1980, Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted in one of the greatest volcanic explosions ever recorded in North America.
Practicing “just this.” – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Meditation.
Rejecting convention. . .
Sunday, May 17, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . 8:30 a.m. Starting out sunny, forecasts for Green Country indicate overcast skies developing over TulseyTown by afternoon, along with strong, gusty Southerlies and upper 80s (again). Rain chances increase overnight.
The fundamental delusion of human-kind is that there is a self separated from all other “things.” The Earth is held in its perfect orbit and distance from the sun by all the gravitational forces of the universe, which, by the way, are also beating our hearts and breathing us. If we need to have faith in something, perhaps that will do. – Peter Coyote, “Welcome to Delusionville” Tricycle Magazine.
On this day in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The unanimous ruling stated that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees equal protection of the laws to all citizens.
170 million women (and an unknown number of men) are likely to be glad of this: PCOS has a new name, published in The Lancet Medical Journal with a much better approach to diagnosis.
And, its the birthdate of Erik Satie born in 1866, Honfleur, Calvados, France. A unique classical composer, his compositions successfully rejected musical convention and were a precursor to modern ambient music,
Dance with Apollo if you dare.