The wonderful vast . . .
Tuesday, August 4, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . 100 degree heat is back in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown today. Another humid Okieland Summer day with sun, some clouds, with a mid-afternoon index of 104º.
The Great Way is always present, though its presence is hard to see. Sound and form, words and speech are themselves part of the Great Way. The realm of reality is as vast as Cosmic Space. It is the knowing mind of sentient beings that is small. – Pao-chih
Today is the 65th birthday of author Barack Obama, our 44th President. He was born in 1961 Honolulu, Hawaii.
It's also the birthdate of jazz musician Louis Armstrong, born in 1901 in “The Battlefield,” near Storyville, New Orleans.
Poet and essayist Percy Bysshe Shelley was also born on this day, in 1792 Field Place, Sussex, England.
And, Poet Laureate and educator Robert Hayden was born in 1913 Detroit, Michigan.
The $1.776b Slush Fund Isn't As Dead As Senators Cornyn And Tillis Seem To Be Willing To Believe. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
The stink should cling to any candidate he's supporting. – Robert Reich, The Stink of Musk. 8.3.26