Nothin' but blue skies . . .

Monday, May 11, 2026 at 6:45a.m. It's the Moon's day . . . Near calm Easterlies, sunny skies and low 80's are in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown today.

Mothers’ Day was not designed to encourage people to be nice to their mothers. It was part of women’s effort to gain power to change society. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.

The concept and human experience of mother is so primal, so big, deep, universal, and wide … it is far too small a container. Julian of Norwich thought so. – Mirabai Starr, in Meditations, at The Center for Action and Contemplation.

The world’s oldest book bearing a specific date of publication, The Diamond Sutra, was printed on this day in the year 868 A.D. It is a collection of many Buddha's teachings. “Sutra” is a sanskrit term meaning “teaching.”

One of America’s most well-regarded physicists, Richard Feynman, was born on this day in 1918, New York City.

Today is also the birth date of Salvador Dalí. The Spanish multi-disciplinary surrealist was born in 1904, Figueras, Spain.

And, it's the birthday of Irving Berlin. Born Israel Baline in 1888 Tyumen, Russia, he was and remains one of America's greatest and enduring songwriters. We still recognize and sing many out of the hundreds of songs he composed.

Skies are blue over TulseyTown at this 8:30 a.m. hour.