Messy beautiful . . .
Saturday, July 11, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . . Interesting forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown today. First, the real temperature this afternoon will be a bit cooler, around 90º but the index will still peak out in the low 100's. Next, a 50/50 chance of a thunderstorm is predicted after the noon hour into early tomorrow morning, otherwise cloudy and easy Southerlies.
Everyone knows firsthand that life is messy and painful, beautiful and unpredictable. The endless practice is keeping our heart open to the whole of it. – Mark Nepo
Pulitzer Prize laureate Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri is 58 today. She was born in 1967 London.
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published on this day in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961.
Trump has fired Election Assistance Commission members ahead of Midterms. – Bo Erickson and Erin Banco reporting for Reuters and published by the Huffington Post. 7.10.26
The White House surprise purge of the nation's top election referees is the clearest sign yet the president intends to cheat in November. He thinks its a Trojan Horse. It isn't. And lawsuits are being drafted as you read this. – Miles Taylor, Defiance, 7.10.26
Newest research yields unexpected effects of cannabis use on the brain of teens and older users. There's good news and some not.
And, songwriter/singer and multipath musician Andrew Bird turns 53 today.
Sisyphus
Love and the dim light of Ai . . .
Friday, July 10, 2026. It's Freya's day . . . another hot one for Green Country is forecasted. Real temperature of 99º is in the forecast for TulseyTown. Moderate Southerlies, mostly sunny skies and a heat index of 105º this afternoon.
Love is not a problem to solve. It's a path to walk.
Yesterday, Tom Hanks celebrated his 70th birthday. The multi Academy Award laureate actor was born in 1956,Concord,California.
The inventor/engineer Nikola Tesla was born on this date in 1856, Smiljan, Austrian Empire [now in Croatia ].
Nobel laureate author Alice Munro was born today in 1931 Wingham, Ontario.
And, French novelist Marcel Proust was born in 1871 Auteuil.
Yesterday marked the anniversary of a dramatic reworking of the U.S. constitutional order when the 14th Amendment was enshrined into law. Its significance is being felt even to today. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
The investigations into AI consciousness are tiny compared with conventional research and development, but tech companies are openly venturing into the controversial territory of a mystery they can't explain, and believe a moral crisis may emerge if they don't. – Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post.
The future is not as bright as Ai advocates presently predict. Who's going to buy all the stuff they promise? Answer: No answer, only crickets. – Robert Reich, on substack today.
Love to love. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.
A lap full of love . . .and feet
Thursday, July 9, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . dangerous heat is in the forecasts for Green Country today. After a few morning showers, the sun, humidity and moderate Southerlies are to push the afternoon heat index to 106º. Heat warnings are in effect.
Popular psychology describes “falling in love” in pathological terms as a matter of our projecting onto the blank screen of another all our hopes and dreams about romantic love, rather than seeing the person for who she or he really is. Poet/song writer/singer Leonard Cohen disagreed with this analysis. Rather, he said, when we fall in love, we are seeing truly. As time goes by, the veils of our ordinary conditioned consciousness begin to drop again and obscure the clear vision we were gifted with at first. – posted by Mirabai Starr, in Slipping Away. 7.8.26
From the “been-there-done-that” files: Leonard described my love life (at least until 30 years ago).
The woman whose feet are in my lap. – Garrison Keillor, “A summer night on a porch,” The Column, 7.8.26
The “forever war” that Trump criticized when he ran for office in 2024 is now a full-blown reality with no end. – Robert Reich, The Never Ending War, substack, 7.8.26
Trump’s election-takeover schemes are becoming dangerous. Blue state Governors are now being told to turn over their voter roles, or their citizens’ lives will be put at risk. – Miles Taylor, Defiance.
E. Jean Carroll is going to outlast Trump's delay game. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Today is the birthdate of one of the most famous journalists of the 20th century, Dorothy Thompson. She was born in 1893, Lancaster, N.Y. and was the first journalist Hitler threw out of Germany before the start of WWII.
Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks was born on this day in 1933 London.
And, Italian composer Ottorino Respighi was born on this day in 1879, Bologna, Italy.
He loved The Pines of Rome.