Beautiful mysteries . . .

Sunday, June 14, 2026’ It's Sol's day . . . an otherwise cloudy, cool day is in the forecast for Green Country. Moderate Northerlies bring upper 70's to TulseyTown during the afternoon. Sunshine returns tomorrow through Wednesday. Rain chances return Thursday. Tonight, the moon is new.

Blessed is the one who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. – George Eliot

Chinese piano vituoso Lang Lang is 44 today. He started lessons at age three, won first place at the Shenyang Piano Competition and performed his first public recital when he was five. Now an international soloist in demand from the world's foremost orchestras and concert halls.

It’s the birthdate of Che Guevara, born in 1928, Rosario, Argentina. A theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, he was a prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution.

Harriet Beecher Stowe—whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin fueled antislavery sentiment and was cited among the causes of the Civil War—was born on this day in 1811 Litchfield, Connecticut.

Does Nature have a “drive?” – Sophie Strand, “Lichenized Lovers,” in Make Me Good Soil. 6.13.26

Bioacoustics is the scientific study of sound produced by or affecting living organisms. The Elephant Listening Project is one of the most ambitious wildlife sound archives on the planet, facilitating forest elephant communication research, directly saving lives, both animal and human. Why whales matter.

You only have what you give. Why is that not obvious?

You get rich by giving yourself away – Isabel Allende

Whoever “Elise” was – still a mystery after 200+ years – she had three who clearly loved her: Beethoven, Steinway, and Lang, Lang.