Winning the blues lottery . . .
Friday, June 26, 2026. It's Frigg's day . . . and there is no rain in the forecasts for Green Country for the next ten days. TulseyTown is to begin drying out with moderate Southerlies, sun, clouds and near 90º mid afternoon.
If you took a very long ruler that stretched from here to the planet Pluto, one inch of that distance would be you. The rest of the distance would be other possible human beings that could have been, but never were. Each of us has won a lottery with a hundred thousand billion different players. – Alan Lightman, “The Figment of You,” in Maria Popova's Sunday Edition of The Marginalian, 6.21.26
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published today in 1997. It was the first in a series by J.K. Rowling that set records and introduced reading to a whole new generation.
Today is the birthdate of novelist Pearl Buck (The Good Earth). The Nobel laureate was born in 1892 Hillsboro, West Virginia.
Jane Austen, despite all. – David Whyte
Finally, the courts have ordered the release of the complete Epstein files. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Older generations often complain that they don't make songs like they used to. Now, a study confirms that this really is the case, as song lyrics have shifted from moral virtues to vices over the past 60 years. – U.S. edition of The Daily Mail.6.24.26.
And, blues musician Big Bill Broonzy was born on this day in 1898 or 1893 in Scott, Mississippi or in Lake Dick, Arkansas.