Transcending time . . .
Tuesday, July 7, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . Summer forecasts have a habit of repeating themselves. Today's for Green Country are a good example: Sun, a few clouds, hot, humid, mid 90's afternoon. The only differences tend be where our breezes, if there are any, come from. Yesterday's easy Nor'easters are to continue in TulseyTown today.
Resentment is the compound interest on conversations you were too afraid to have. — Mark Manson.
While climate change makes extreme heat more dangerous, the Trump administration is fighting to remove or alter national park signs and exhibits that tell the truth about the crisis unfolding around us. The efforts are part of a broader push to censor national park materials about climate change, slavery, Indigenous history, immigration, racism, and other essential parts of the American story. That is not public service. It is political censorship. But, maybe, you knew that. If not, now you do.
Trump has taken to saying that those Americans calling for the government to maintain the rule of law to make sure the economic playing field is level, rather than working for corporations and the wealthy, are “communists.” So he is looking to put a thumb on the scale of the midterm elections as he did in the FIFA match and the economy. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Why Is He Using the Communist Trump Card? – Robert Reich, He's Run Out of Cards. Substack, 7.6.26
Today is the birthdate of historian and author David McCullough. The two time laureate of the Pulitzer and National Book Awards, he was born in 1933 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Marc Chagall was born on this day in 1887, Vitebsk, Belorussia, Russian Empire [now in Belarus]. The Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rather than on rules of pictorial logic. Predating Surrealism, his works were among the first expressions of psychic reality in modern art.
Its also the birthdate of science fiction writer (Stranger in a Strange Land) Robert Heinlein. born in 1907 Butler, Missouri.
And, composer and conductor Gustav Mahler was born on this day in1860 Kaliště, Bohemia. One of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, that position has sustained into today. He wrote some of the most intense, powerful and large scale symphonies in all of music history.
Mahler and Bernstein = Transcendence