Leave a dime on the sidewalk . . .

Sunday, July 6, 2025 . It's Sol's day . . . Moderate Southerlies and a cloudy morning bring sunshine to the forecasts shared with clouds this afternoon with a 50/50 chance for rain near sundown. Upper 80's.

Today is the 90th birthday of Tenzin Gayatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. Born in 1935, Taktser, Tibet, he is the first Dalai Lama to become a global figure, largely for his advocacy of Buddhism and of the rights of the people of Tibet .

This is the day in 1942 that Anne Frank and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam.

Painter and feminist icon Frida Kahlo was born on this day in 1907, Coyoacán, Mexico.

If our inner journey does not match and lead to an outer journey of liberation for all, we have no true freedom or “salvation.” That is what liberation theology is honest enough to point out. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.

The egoism of the rich presents a more serious problem than Communism. – Brazilian Archbishop Dom Hélder Câmara

Sometimes all it takes

to be happy

is a dime on the sidewalk.

[…]

How is it that the rich always know

what is best for the poor?

– Jim Harrison and/or Ted Kooser, Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry. Copper Canyon Press, 2003.