Messy beautiful . . .

Saturday, July 11, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . . Interesting forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown today. First, the real temperature this afternoon will be a bit cooler, around 90º but the index will still peak out in the low 100's. Next, a 50/50 chance of a thunderstorm is predicted after the noon hour into early tomorrow morning, otherwise cloudy and easy Southerlies.

Everyone knows firsthand that life is messy and painful, beautiful and unpredictable. The endless practice is keeping our heart open to the whole of it. – Mark Nepo

Pulitzer Prize laureate Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri is 58 today. She was born in 1967 London.

Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published on this day in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961.

Trump has fired Election Assistance Commission members ahead of Midterms. – Bo Erickson and Erin Banco reporting for Reuters and published by the Huffington Post. 7.10.26

The White House surprise purge of the nation's top election referees is the clearest sign yet the president intends to cheat in November. He thinks its a Trojan Horse. It isn't. And lawsuits are being drafted as you read this. – Miles Taylor, Defiance, 7.10.26

Newest research yields unexpected effects of cannabis use on the brain of teens and older users. There's good news and some not.

And, songwriter/singer and multipath musician Andrew Bird turns 53 today.
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