Another kind of freedom . . .
Wednesday, July 15, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . Green Country forecasts project light Easterlies and upper 80's with a 50/50 chance for rain this afternoon in TulseyTown. The moon is new since yesterday.
Love is the bridge between us and all things. – Rumi
Pema Chödrön on her 90th birthday yesterday: Another kind of freedom: Teach until I die.
Rembrandt was born on this day in 1606, Leiden, Netherlands. The Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker was one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art,
Novelist Iris Murdoch was born on this day in 1919 Dublin.
Trump's FCC has approved a sun-reflecting satellite. The alarm sirens are sounding.
Get ready for the Bigger Lie. – Miles Taylor, Defiance, 7.14.26
Some of the most successful marriages happen between unlikely partners. Mirabai Starr, Teresa of Avila and Hildegard of Bingen seem perfect examples.
Today is also the birthday of he internationally celebrated English guitarist and lutenist Julian Bream. Equaled by only a few other guitarists in the world he was born in 1933, London, England.
Django Reinhardt played by Stephane Grappelli & Julian Bream
This land is our land . . .
Tuesday, July 14, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . those slight Summer chances for a thunderstorm sneak back into the forecasts for Green Country. Easy Easterlies, low 90's fill the afternoon in TulseyTown.
Today is the birthdate of Woody Guthrie, born in 1912, Okemah, Oklahoma. Not far from my front porch and all our minds.
And today in 1960 Jane Goodall set up camp in Tanzania.
Swedish director and writer Ingmar Bergman was born on this day in 1918 Uppsala.
And it's the birthdate of playwright Arthur Laurents, born in 1917 Brooklyn.
It's Bastille Day, celebrated around the world by all French supporters.
China’s open Ai models are advancing its global soft power while America’s closed models are falling behind. – Nathan Gardels, Noema, 7.10.26
As predicted: Tech companies are turning to Ai to cut staff and increase profits. Prepare to say goodbye to the middle class.
Can ChatGPT Be Your Therapist? USC Study Tested AI Responses to Mental Health Questions.
Woody, Arlo, Steve Goodman, the songs and memories continue.
Always in the small hours . . .
Monday, July 13, 2026. It's the Moon's day . . . and it is new tonight and tomorrow. Green Country forecasts for today are much like yesterday's. Sun, clouds, moderate Nor'easters for TulseyTown. Low 90's with an index in the upper 90's late afternoon.
Leave the door open for a little joy.
Robert Reich remembers Lindsey Graham. – Lindsey Graham R.I.P. 7.12.26
On May 3, 2016, Senator Lindsey Graham posted on social media: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.”
Call your Senator and explain why Todd Blanche should never, ever become U.S. Attorney General. – Robert Reich, substack, 7.13.26
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka is 92 today. The Nigerian playwright and political activist was born in 1934, Abeokuta, Nigeria.
Today is the 94th birthday of Harrison Ford, born in 1942, Chicago, Illinois.
English poet John Clare was born on this day in 1793 Helpston, Northamptonshire.
In the Small Hours
Blue diaphane, tobacco smoke
Serpentine on wet film and wood glaze,
Mutes chrome, wreathes velvet drapes,
Dims the cave of mirrors. Ghost fingers
Comb seaweed hair, stroke acquamarine veins
Of marooned mariners, captives
Of Circe's sultry notes. The barman
Dispenses igneous potions ?
Somnabulist, the band plays on.
…
Departures linger. Absences do not
Deplete the tavern. They hang over the haze
As exhalations from receded shores. Soon,
Night repossesses the silence, but till dawn
The notes hold sway, smoky
Epiphanies, possessive of the hours.
This music's plaint forgives, redeems
The deafness of the world. Night turns
Homewards, sheathed in notes of solace, pleats
The broken silence of the heart.
– Wole Soyinka In the “In the Small Hours,” in Early Poems, Oxford University Press in 1997.