The without within . . .

Thursday, July 2, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . forecasts for Green Country appear to have been Xeroxed from yesterday: another hot and humid day for TulseyTown. Moderate Southerlies, sun and clouds, and a heat index in the 100's mid afternoon.

Every day you play with the light of the universe. – Pablo Neruda.

What should have been a simple unanimous, open and shut decision was dangerously close. Supremes: Summary. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

Thurgood Marshall civil rights activist, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was born in 1908, Baltimore, Maryland.

Today in 1937 the airplane piloted by American aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean during her attempt to fly around the world.

Nobel Prize laureate in literature, poet Wisława Szymborska was born on this day in 1923 Prowent, Poland 1966.

And, today is the birthdate of Herman Hesse. The Nobel Laureate author of Siddhartha – the life of Buddha – was born in 1877 Cawl, Germany.

“The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.” – Herman Hesse, Siddhartha. First published in 1922. As of its hundredth anniversary in 2022, it had sold more than four million copies in the United States alone.

The great paradox of personhood is that the sum is simpler than its parts. We move through the world as a totality, fragmentary but indivisible, clothed in a costume of personality beneath which roil parts perpetually … yearning for harmony. – Maria Popova, “Living in Unison,” The Marginalian,

There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters. – D.H. Lawrence, Apocalypse, this edition: Penguin Books. 1996,