Poetry can be dangerous . . .
Tuesday, August 18, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . At 9:30 a.m. heat warnings return to the forecasts for Green Country . Moderate Southerlies return to TulseyTown this afternoon with a109º index.
Love's flame reduces guilt to ash. – Rumi
On this date in 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. Attempts to restrict voting rights continued into today.
The oligarchy is not interested in serving America, yet it dominates American politics and essentially runs the American system. – Robert Reich, Power in the Age of Oligarchy, 8.14.26
E. Jean Carroll, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Power of Being Believed. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
The three day Woodstock music festival ended today after three days. It was the most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, held on Yasger’s farm property in Bethel,New York, August 15–18, 1969.
Today is the birthdate of Robert Redford born in 1936 Santa Monica, California.
On this date in 1936 the most important Spanish poet and playwright of the 20th century, Federico García Lorca, was murdered by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War. His body has never been found.
. . . all mystics are positive people—or they are not mystics. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Remaining in Love, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.