Watermelon season . . .
Sunday, April 12, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . Tired ol' Sol is sleeping in today, behind rain clouds. Strong Southerlies and rain are forecasted for Green Country and TulseyTown today. Mid 70's afternoon as the rain abates leaving clouds for the rest of the day.
The genius of the Buddha—the Indian prince Siddhartha—and many who followed him was the realization that the mind is not static. It is living, breathing, evolving.
The word sin has so many unhelpful connotations in most of our minds that it’s very problematic today. . .it connotes naughty behavior and personal moral unworthiness. But these are merely symptoms and not the state itself. – Fr. Richard Rohr, An Illusion of Separateness, Meditations, at The Center for Action and Contemplation.
Teresa of Avila is one of the great advocates and models of the power of simply sitting for a few minutes each day in silence and stillness, and striking up a conversation with the One who is waiting to love us unconditionally, the One who will never leave us, the One who is not different from the essence of who we truly are. – Mirabai Starr, The Way of Imperfection, 4.4.26
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt – FDR as he was called – afflicted with polio, died in office on this day in Warm Springs, Florida at a retreat he had created for polio victims.
The success of a polio vaccine, developed by Jonas Salk, was announced on this day in 1955.
Yesterday, after marathon peace talks, the U.S. and Iran failed to reach agreement.
Today is the birthday of Tom Clancy. The novelist (The Hunt for Red October among many) was born in 1947 Baltimore, Maryland.
David Letterman is 79 today. The longest-serving late-night talk show host in American television history was born in 1947, Indianapolis, Indiana.
And, Herbie Hancock is 85. The inventive pianist, songwriter, bandleader, prolific recording artist and Kennedy Center honoree was born in 1940, Chicago, Illinois.
In this recording, Hancock details the creative impulse for one of this most famous compositions – Watermelon Man – to Elvis Costello before a large crowd (in 2008 Chicago, I think).