A lap full of love . . .and feet
Thursday, July 9, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . dangerous heat is in the forecasts for Green Country today. After a few morning showers, the sun, humidity and moderate Southerlies are to push the afternoon heat index to 106º. Heat warnings are in effect.
Popular psychology describes “falling in love” in pathological terms as a matter of our projecting onto the blank screen of another all our hopes and dreams about romantic love, rather than seeing the person for who she or he really is. Poet/song writer/singer Leonard Cohen disagreed with this analysis. Rather, he said, when we fall in love, we are seeing truly. As time goes by, the veils of our ordinary conditioned consciousness begin to drop again and obscure the clear vision we were gifted with at first. – posted by Mirabai Starr, in Slipping Away. 7.8.26
From the “been-there-done-that” files: Leonard described my love life (at least until 30 years ago).
The woman whose feet are in my lap. – Garrison Keillor, “A summer night on a porch,” The Column, 7.8.26
The “forever war” that Trump criticized when he ran for office in 2024 is now a full-blown reality with no end. – Robert Reich, The Never Ending War, substack, 7.8.26
Trump’s election-takeover schemes are becoming dangerous. Blue state Governors are now being told to turn over their voter roles, or their citizens’ lives will be put at risk. – Miles Taylor, Defiance.
E. Jean Carroll is going to outlast Trump's delay game. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Today is the birthdate of one of the most famous journalists of the 20th century, Dorothy Thompson. She was born in 1893, Lancaster, N.Y. and was the first journalist Hitler threw out of Germany before the start of WWII.
Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks was born on this day in 1933 London.
And, Italian composer Ottorino Respighi was born on this day in 1879, Bologna, Italy.
He loved The Pines of Rome.