The heart has its reasons . . .

Friday, June 19, 2026. It's Freya's day . . . Forecasts for Green Country indicate moderate Southeasterlies maintaining a mostly cloudy day in the mid 80's in TulseyTown.

. . . all the things the world tells you are “inefficiencies” are where life actually happens. – attributed to Kurt Vonnegut.

Today is Juneteenth, an annual observance on June 19 to remember when Union soldiers enforced the Emancipation Proclamation and freed all remaining slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865. Now a federal holiday, the annual observace has become an opportunity for people to celebrate freedom and equal rights in the United States.

The truth about Trump and Juneteenth. – Robert Reich, substack, 6.16.26

[Trump and his minions] trying to dictate a new global order seem brittle and breaking, while the momentum has shifted back to the American people. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American, posted for today.

Today is the birthdate of Blaise Pascal. The mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher was born in 1623 Clermont-Ferrand, France.

French Impressionist painter and sculptor Edgar Degas was born on this day in 1834, Paris, France .

Salman Rushdie is 79 today. The novelist was born in 1947 Bombay (now Mumbai), India.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of . . .We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart. — Blaise Pascal, Pensées