Coming together on the green . . .

Friday, September 4, 2026. It's Freya's day . . . Windy Southerlies, upper 90's and an index of 106º this afternoon as humidity and heat combine in TulseyTown's afternoon today. Green Country continues to bake.

It was on this day in 1886 that Geronimo, the last major Native American warrior, surrendered after 30 years of fighting.

Beyoncé is 45 today. The multi-awarded singer-songwriter actress and one of the best-selling music artists of all time, she was born in 1981, Houston, Texas.

Tulsa Symphony-in-the-Park is this evening. Gathering at 6pm on the Guthrie Green.

Symphony composer Anton Bruckner was born on this day in 1824, Ansfelden, Austria.

It's the birthdate of novelist and short-story writer Richard Wright, born in 1908 Plantation, Roxie, Mississippi.

It's also the birthdate for history novelist Mary Renault born Eileen Challans in 1905 Forest Gate, England.

The radio commentator and news columnist Paul Harvey was born in 1918 Tulsa, Oklahoma.

And now, the rest of the story . . .

Donald Trump’s Justice Department is putting a gun to the head of every governor in America. The hostages are hungry children. – Miles Taylor, in Defiance, 9.3.26

Hegseth Must Go. – Robert Reich, on Substack, 8.3.26

Room for it all: Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. – Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times,Shambhala, 2016.