Turkeys talking . . .
Tuesday, June 9, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . Summer Solstice is still several weeks ahead, but you wouldn't know it in Green Country. Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate strong Southerlies, hot sun in the low 90's with heat indices near 100º
We do not have a privilege access to reality. So easily do we forget to really live our lives in the present moment, following a temptation to think ahead. – “Talking Turkey,” Nature, PBS.
Yesterday in 1789 James Madison proposed what would become our Constitutional Bill of Rights. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
The Week Ahead – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse (posted late Sunday)
Don't break out the champaign-- Robert Reich, re: Friday's jobs report.
The first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Bertha von Suttner, was born on this day in 1843, Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire, now the Czech Republic.
Natalie Portman is 45 today The multi-laureate awarded actor was born in 1981, Jerusalem.
Johnny Depp is 63, born in 1963 Owensboro, Kentucky.
Michael Fox is 65, born in 1961, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Electric guitar master and inventor Les Paul was born today in 1915 Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Broadway musical composer Cole Porter was also born on this date, in 1891, Peru, Indiana.