Not quite almost…

It's Sol's day in Oklieland as the heat-hammer eases slightly before returning for the season. In the mailbox this morning:

Today, July 2nd marks the day that the Second Continental Congress declared that the thirteen colonies were no longer subject to King George III. Congress subsequently revised the wording of the Declaration, removing Jefferson's vigorous denunciation of the British monarch for importing the slave trade, and finally approved it two days later.

John Adams wrote, in a letter to his wife, Abigail, “The second day of July 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America.
He was almost right.

It was on this day in 1937, that Amelia Earhart was last heard from, somewhere over the Pacific.

It's the 146th anniversary of Hermann Hesse's birth. The German Nobel Prize winner, poet and author was born today in 1877 Calw, Germany. His many books include Siddhartha, Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game.

We are called to cognizant restraint, or “the withholding from becoming” that avoids the binding of being either by our tools or by necessity. Technogenic humans must learn to respect our embodiment, but not be imprisoned by it. And vice-versa. – Nathan Gardels

Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything came.

– John Berger in Maria Popova's Marginalian.