The present eating the future . . .

Sunday, October 18, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . At 8 a.m. in the Mailbox.

Moderate Southerlies return to the forecasts for GreenCountry and TulseyTown today. An afternoon of sunny skies and upper 60's ahead of a mid-week warming trend.

America makes its choice. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought.

Wynton Marsalis is 65 today. A renowned American jazz musician, he was born in 1961 New Orleans, Louisiana. His accolades include nine Grammy Awards, and his 1997 oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Blues/Rock guitarist, composer and singer Chuck Berry was born today in 1926 St. Louis, Missouri.

Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau was born on this day in 1919 Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His terms in office (1968–79; 1980–84) were marked by the establishment of diplomatic relations with China, the defeat of the French separatist movement, constitutional independence from the British Parliament, and the formation of a new Canadian constitution with the principal additions of a bill of rights and an amending formula. His son, Justin Trudeau, followed in his father’s footsteps, becoming Canadian prime minister in 2015.

It’s also the birthdate of Lotte Lenya, born in 1898, Vienna, Austria. The Austrian actress-singer popularized much of the music of her first husband, the composer Kurt Weill, and appeared frequently in the musical dramas of Weill and his longtime collaborator Bertolt Brecht. Among them, The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and Her Children, and Cabaret.

The Japanese Buddhist scholar and thinker who was the chief interpreter of Zen Buddhism to the West, D.T. Suzuki, was born on this date in 1870, Kanazawa, Japan.

And, the first transistor radio appeared on the market. in just in time for Christmas in 1954. An immediate success, it paved the way for rock and roll.

… the incentives of the [democratic/capitalist] system deliver what the most influential demographic wants, and when they want it, which is now. This short term gratification is The Achilles heel of consumer democracies : There is precious little constituency for the future in the present. – Nathan Gardels, When The Present Eats The Future, Noema. 10.16.26