Dictated by doubt . . .

Saturday, May 23, 2026. It's 8 a.m. on the Satyr's day as I build this blog (now delayed by computer glitch until 11a.m.) . . . Morning rains in Green Country are to end before Noon. Easy Southerlies maintain cloudy skies through the afternoon in the mid 70's. Forecasts for TulseyTown predict a peek at sunshine at sundown.

“I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.” – Francis Ford Coppola

Poet Jane Kenyon was born on this day in 1947.

A mycelial metaphor – Sophie Strand, Make Me Good Soil, 5.21.26

Update: Microplastics invading our bodies.

Trump is likely to lose the midterms, but a global crime-spree would likely follow. – Miles Taylor, in Defiance, 5.22.26

Sixty-two years ago yesterday then President Lyndon Johnson outlined his vision for “The Great Society.” It was an historic occasion, one recalled by Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

Stanly Kubrick's psychological horror film The Shining premiered on this day in 1980.

When the World Is Designed to Make You Panic – Sam Harris at Commune.

Beholding “just this.” Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 5.22.26

Two minutes in nature.

One hour in our national parks.