The strange things done . . .

Monday, August 17, 2026. It's the Moon's day . . . at 9 a.m. early rains were welcomed by Green Country ahead of a much cooler day and respite from the heat for a day. Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate moderate Nor'easters with rain ending before noon. The sun and heat are to return by mid afternoon. With upper 90's and an index of 100º.

Our first egoic glance at life … is largely wrong. And it is largely engendered by fear...For the untransformed self, religion is the most dangerous temptation of all. --Fr. Richard Rohr

The Week Ahead. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

One of cinema’s most acclaimed actors, Robert De Niro is 83 today, born in 1943 New York City.

Mystery writer Steve Hockensmith is 58 today, born in 1968 Louisville, Kentucky.

It's the birth date of poet Ted Hughes. The English poet, translator, and children's writer was born in 1930 West Riding, Yorkshire. Many critics consider Hughes among the best writers in his generation. He was married to fellow poet Sylvia Plath.

Novelist, poet, and short-story writer Evan S. Connell was born on this date in 1924 Kansas City, Missouri.

Today is also the birthdate of Marcus Garvey, born in 1887 St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. Among many influences, the self educated organizer created the first important American Black nationalist movement based in New York City’s Harlem.

Charles Horton Cooley was born on this date in1864 Ann Arbor, Michigan. An early social psychologist, he theorized the existence of a “looking glass self,” that the mind is social and that society is a mental construct.

The Yukon “gold rush” got started yesterday in 1896 and Heather Cox Richardson posted a recollection in Letters From An American.

“There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold . . . ” – Robert Service, The Cremation of Sam McGee.