Start where you are . . .
Wednesday, June 17, 2026, It's Odin's day . . . Guten Morgen: Sunny, warm mid 90's and strong Southerlies are in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown.
What you do for yourself—any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself—will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. What you do for yourself, you’re doing for others, and what you do for others, you’re doing for yourself. Meditating on this reality, it becomes increasingly uncertain what is out there and what is in here. – Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are, Shambhala Press, 2018.
Would you give up your right to vote? – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Menopause and spirituality: Gabby Bernstein in conversation with Jeff Krasno.
Today is the birthdate of James Weldon Johnson. An important figure in the Harlem Renaissance he was also a diplomat, writer, poet and civil rights leader
Barry Manilow is 83 today. The songwriter/singer was born in 1943 New York City. His present concert tour has him in Reading, Pennsylvania tonight.
Russian composer Igor Stravinsky was born on this day in 1882 Oranienbaum, Russia. He was one of the most important and influential figures in twentieth-century classical music. Most notably: Ballet scores for “The Rite of Spring,” “The Firebird,” and “Petrushka,” with Sergei Diaghilev, owner of the Ballets Russes ballet company.