The heat of forgiveness. . .

Monday, August 3, 2026. The heat returns to Green Country this Moon’s day. Moderate Southerlies bring bright sunshine, humid mid 90's and indices in the upper 90's for TulseyTown's afternoon.

The Week Ahead. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

Today is the birthdate of poet Hayden Carruth, born in 1921 Waterbury, Connecticut.

British crime novelist P.D. James, born Phyllis Dorothy James, was born on this day in 1920 Oxford, England.

Today is the 85th birthday of Martha Stewart, born in 1941, Jersey City, New Jersey.

It's the date of the premier of Clint Eastwood's revisionist western Unforgiven. It later won four Academy Awards, including best director for Eastwood, and best picture. He also starred in the drama,

Emergency Haying

Coming home with the last load I ride standing

on the wagon tongue, behind the tractor

in hot exhaust, lank with sweat,

…

my arms strung

awkwardly along the hayrack,

cruciform.

…

my body hangs from twisted shoulders, suspended

on two points of pain in the rising

monoxide, recall that greater suffering.

...

My eyes

sting with sweat and loveliness. And who

is the Christ now, who

if not I?

…

– Hayden Carruth, read the complete poem,“ Emergency Haying” from Toward the Distant Islands: New & Selected Poems, Copper Canyon Press. 2006.