Passionate peace . . .

Sunday, April 26, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . Strong southerlies bring clouds, upper 70's and a 20% chance of a thunderstorm to TulseyTown and Green Country this afternoon. Almost a Summer forecast. Slight storm chance extends into the overnight.

Peace, in its most fundamental form, is the connection of one human spirit to another.

The great mystics of all traditions teach us that the spiritual life is not really about consolation; it is about annihilation. – Mirabai Starr, Exquisite Risk: John of the Cross and the Transformational Power of Captivity, substack 4.21.26

Today in 1607 the first permanent English settlers in North America landed at Cape Henry, Chesapeake Bay.

Yesterday in 1945 delegates from fifty nations met in San Francisco to establish a permanent forum for international cooperation: the United Nations. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

Carol Burnett is 93 today. born in 1933, San Antonio, Texas.

The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was born on this date in 1889, Vienna, Austria.

The ornithologist and artist John James Audubon was born today in 1785 Les Cayes in what is now Haiti.

Ma Rainey was born in 1886 Columbus, Georgia. Known as the “mother of the blues” she is recognized as the first great professional blues vocalist

On this day in 1954 Kurosawa Akira's Seven Samurai was released in Japan. It is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential films ever made.

I’ll deal with Trump tomorrow.

… my continuing passion… to part the curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the veil of indifference to each other’s presence, each other’s wonder, each other’s human plight. – Eudora Welty