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).