Cowboys and Coca-Cola . . .
Saturday, August 8, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . . after a cool morning, another hot afternoon is in the forecasts for Green Country. Easy Southerlies and a 108º index. are expected in TulseyTown’s afternoon.
The time we live in is a fertile ground for practice in being open-minded and open-hearted. – Pema Chödrön
Today is the day in 1963 of the Great Train Robbery near London.
Ernest Orlando Lawrence born in 1901, Canton, South Dakota. physicist, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of the cyclotron, the first particle accelerator to achieve high energies. He founded the Berkeley Lab at UCal Berkeley in 1931.
Yesterday was the day in 1947 that Thor Heyerdahl’s raft Kon-Tiki crashed into a reef in French Polynesia.
The poet Sara Teasdale was born today in 1884, St. Louis, Missouri.
Heartbreak is unpreventable. – David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, Many Rivers Press.
And, it’s the birthdate of Mel Tillis. The singer and writer of hundreds of country music songs.was born tday in 1932, Dover, Florida.