Where spirit meets the bone . . .
Wednesday, June 10, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . Strong, gusty Southerlies, bright sunshine and low 90's are in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown today.
The Universe is calling us to participate in the evolution of our consciousness and to live with a courageous heart. Tara Brach.
Today is the birthday of sociobiologist Edward Osborne Wilson, born in 1929 Birmingham, Alabama.
Judy Garland was born on this day in 1922, Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
Confessions of a Romantic Animist [III]: Enemies To Earth Lovers – Sophie Strand, Make Me Good Soil, 6.9.26
Tristan und Isolde, the earliest example of what Richard Wagner called “music drama,” was first performed on this date. It became the greatest German opera of the late 19th century and is still challenging opera company performances around the world.
Without a foundation in conventional truth
the significance of the ultimate cannot be taught.
Without understanding the significance of the ultimate,
liberation is not achieved.– Nagarjuna's “Emptiness Explained,” Tricycle, Spring 2023
Where the spirit meets the bone. – Lucinda Williams, in The Marginalian.
Turkeys talking . . .
Tuesday, June 9, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . Summer Solstice is still several weeks ahead, but you wouldn't know it in Green Country. Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate strong Southerlies, hot sun in the low 90's with heat indices near 100º
We do not have a privilege access to reality. So easily do we forget to really live our lives in the present moment, following a temptation to think ahead. – “Talking Turkey,” Nature, PBS.
Yesterday in 1789 James Madison proposed what would become our Constitutional Bill of Rights. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
The Week Ahead – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse (posted late Sunday)
Don't break out the champaign-- Robert Reich, re: Friday's jobs report.
The first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Bertha von Suttner, was born on this day in 1843, Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire, now the Czech Republic.
Natalie Portman is 45 today The multi-laureate awarded actor was born in 1981, Jerusalem.
Johnny Depp is 63, born in 1963 Owensboro, Kentucky.
Michael Fox is 65, born in 1961, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Electric guitar master and inventor Les Paul was born today in 1915 Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Broadway musical composer Cole Porter was also born on this date, in 1891, Peru, Indiana.
The bread of all noble hearts . . .
Monday, June 8, 2026.
It's the Moon's day . . . Strong Southerlies are in the forecasts today. Mixed sun and clouds and a warn low 90's this afternoon in Green Country and TulseyTown.
Apple's CEO Tim Cook shares his “swan song” today at Noon CDT. The end of an era. View it on youtube (tim cook wwdc 2026 ).
Today's Apple keynote finally delivers the Siri promised back in 2024. The assistant becomes a full chatbot like ChatGPT, with its own app, chat history that syncs across devices and the power to control your apps. The catch? It’s still labeled “beta”, and you might face a wait list when iOS 27 lands in September. I asked Siri what IDK meant. She said she didn’t know. Checks out. – Kim Komando, The Current.
The creative master of American architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright was born on this day in1867 Richland Center, Wisconsin. His “Prairie style” became the basis of 20th-century residential design in the United States.
Today in 1949 British author George Orwell published his dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-four.
Bread to all noble hearts: Tristan & Isolde : An introduction. – Sophie Strand, Make Me Good Soil. 6.7.26
… every poem carries some blessing, even if hidden. Which may be why poems are often said to be a form of prayer. Yet, it is our knowledge of death that makes us pray. Every path a child takes looks precarious to the parent's eye. And it is, and precarious is an old word that means “full of prayers.” – Michael Meade, Fathers' Prayers for Sons and Daughters, in the anthology The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, Harper Collins. 1992,
… poetry at its best is found rather than written. Traditionally, and for many people even today, poems have been admired chiefly for their [mechanical] craftsmanship and musicality . . .I respect and enjoy that, but I would not have worked so long and hard at my poetry if it were primarily the production of well-made objects, just as I would not have sacrificed so much for love if love were mostly about pleasure. – Linda Gregg, “The Art of Finding” posted by the Academy of American Poets, 2006.
Why My “T” Sticks
He threw a
typewriter at me
from the upstairs
front window.
“Now use that
in a poem, you bitch.”
So I did.
– Pam Ward. Rattle, #91 Spring 2026.