Indelibly stamped . . .
Thursday, July 30, 2026 . 9 a.m. It's Thor's Day . . . Slight chances for rain are in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown. 15% today and 50/50 tonight. Moderate Southerlies are to maintain partly cloudy skies and an afternoon heat index of 108º.
Eternity is the indelible stamp of creation.
We, and all beings – as unlikely as this may sometimes seem – are all fully and equally endowed with the same original mind of wisdom, compassion, and virtue. The only difference between the Buddha and us is that we just don’t yet know it.
Today is the birthdate of Emily Brontë . The author of Wuthering Heights was born in 1818 Thornton, Yorkshire, England.
Sculptor Henry Moore was born in 1898, Castleford, Yorkshire, England.
Today in 1863 the industrialist and automobile manufacturer Henry Ford was born. He invented the assembly line, the Model T, and today's Ford Motor Company.
Paul Anka is 85 today.
And, blues man Buddy Guy turns 90 today. He was born in 1936, Lettsworth, Louisiana.
Buddy honors Santana at the 2013 Kennedy.
Waiting on certainty . . .
Wednesday, July 29, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . and the moon is full. Green Country forecasts remain in the “rinse repeat” cycle. Moderate Southerlies, mostly clear, hot, sunny skies. The TulseyTown afternoon is to bake in the upper 90's with an index of 109º.
“Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.” ~I Ching
Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal into the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marqis.
The twice named U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize awardee Stanley Kunitz was born today in 1905 Worcester, Massachusetts.
The first part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings was published today in 1954.
And, Don Marquis born in 1878 Walnut, Illinois.The newspaperman, poet, and playwright created the literary characters Archy, the cockroach, and Mehitabel, the cat, — wry, down-and-out philosophers of the 1920’s.
Today in 1957, The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) came into full official force.
NASA was established on this day in 1958.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dag Hammarskjöld was born on this date in 1905 Jönköping, Sweden.
And, Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805 Paris, France. He published the classic Democracy in America.
an idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it....you want to know whether i believe in ghosts, of course i do not believe in them. if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe in them either.
―Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel, first published in 1927 by Doubleday, Page & Company. Current edition publisher is Anchor, 1970.
Don't just do something. Wait for it.
Random strangers want to know . . .
Tuesday, July 28, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . another hot, humid Okieland Summer day. Forecasts for Green Country indicate moderate Southerlies, real temperature of 100. An index of 110º is forecast for the afternoon in TulseyTown .
Are you willing to allow love to have Its Way with you? It's the nature of “The Way.” We can try to choose to swim against the stream. An insistence that there is such a choice can create a tsunami of our life. “The Way” has its way. Ruminating on “should” is an attempt to avoid the “what.”
Japan was hit by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake this morning. Early tsunami warnings were lifted after the quake. Significant damage but no deaths reported as of this hour (8:30 a.m. CDT).
Today is the birthday of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, born in 1929 Southampton, New York.
The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was born today in 1844, Stratford, Essex, England.
It's also the birthdate of the poet John Ashbery born in1927 Rochester, New York.
Italian conductor Riccardo Muti is 84 today, born in 1941 Naples, Italy. One of the most respected and charismatic conductors of his generation, he is currently the conductor emeritus of the Chicagy Symphony Orchestra among several other organized musical institutions.
World War I began on this day in 1914.
Trump keeps toying with the big-B Bomb. The man may want to detonate something very big. Pray that it's more likely to be his own presidency than a nuclear weapon. – Miles Taylor, Defiance, 2.27.26
He has no clue what he's doing in the Saudi nuclear deal. – Lisa Needham, Daily Kos, 7.24.26
The questions from random strangers. And my answer. – Robert Reich, substack today.
The question is not whether things will change. The question is how. For Americans, the answer is either reform or catastrophe. I believe we are prepared to choose reform, to build something better before we're forced by the current status quo into disasters beyond recovery. But reform requires effort. It never arises on its own. It happens when enough people decide that the future will be different from the present and then do the work to make it so. – Pete Buddigieg (7.27.26 email).