The Way runs on Bambi time . . .
Friday, August 21, 2026. It's Frigg's day . . . at 9 a.m. after welcome morning thunderstorms, another hot afternoon is in the forecasts for Green Country. Much like yesterday: Intense sun, real temperature at the century mark with an index of 107º
Although the rhythm of the waves beats a kind of time, it’s not clock or calendar time. It has no urgency. It’s timeless time. Because I know I’m listening to a rhythm which has been just the same for millions of years. And it takes you out of the world of relentlessly ticking clocks. Clocks, for some reason or other, always seem to be marching, and armies never march to anything but doom. But there’s no marching rhythm in the motion of waves. It harmonizes with the breath. It does not count our days...It’s the breathing of eternity, like the Brahmā of Indian mythology, who inhales and exhales, manifests and dissolves the worlds endlessly, for ever. As a mere conception, that sounds appalling and monotonous — until you listen to the breaking and washing of waves. — – Alan Watts, “The Wisdom of Water,” in Maria Popova's Marginalian.
It’s fascinating to watch your parents maintain that the sun rises in the west. – Garrrison Keillor, “Thanks Wisconsin, “ The Column, 8.14.26
The Battle For Western Civilization took place beginning on this day in 489 A.D. at Thermopylae. 300 Spartans prevailed against over 300,00 Persians.
On this day in 1942 the animated film Bambi had its theatrical release in the United States.
Novelist Robert Stone was born on this date in 1937 Brooklyn.
And, the pianist/band leader Count Basie was born was on this date in 1904 Red Bank, New Jersey.