When Pooh gets “bothered” . . .

Tuesday, June 23, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . at 7 a.m. forecasts for Green Country indicated moderate chances of thunderstorms in TulseyTown's afternoon and evening. Cloudy and cool conditions near 80º.

Hmm..what's for breakfast?

Most of us meet most bad moments with a racing mind, a tight chest, and a running list of everything that could go wrong next. That's a disregulated nervous system at work. It doesn't have to be that way: Something else goes wrong – the honey's gone, it's raining again, Eeyore's lost his tail. And the worst Pooh musters is a soft "oh, bother." Then he carries on. Always present, unhurried, completely himself. – Nick Ortner, atThe Tapping Solution.

The poet Anna Akhmatova was born today in 1889, Bolshoy Fontan, near Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire. She is recognized as the greatest woman poet in Russian literature history.

It's the birthdate of Alfred Kinsey. The zoologist and student of human sexual behavior was born in 1894, Hoboken, New Jersey .

Novelist (The Killer Angels) Michael Shaara was born on this day in 1928 Jersey City, New Jersey

More and more is it clear that the Trump administration is mired in its own mistakes. Heather Cox Richardson in today's Letters From An American.

Democrats must take on America's oligarchs. – Robert Reich, substack, 6.23.26

Living in harmony with the Tao champions nature’s simplicity and beauty. It encourages us to embrace the balance of opposites within the whole. Thousands of years of meditation and practices such as qigong and Tai'Chi leads to an understnding that effort without struggle and strife is possible. With practice we align with the transformational processes of life. Tao is the nameless and the named, the Source and the manifest, the subtle and the bounded. It tells us to be like water, which flows to the lowest places and nourishes all things. Softness is the source of its strength.