On The Way to Paradox . . .

Thursday, June 4, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . Moderate Southerlies bring slight rain chances to TulseyTown today. Partly cloudy with upper 80s are in the afternoon forecasts for Green Country.

For how many years have you gone through the house shutting windows, while the rain was still five miles away? – Mary Oliver, “From the Book of Time,” in The Leaf and The Cloud, De Capo Press, 2000.

Scott Pelley decided his job wasn’t worth his soul. Going forward, he will be the role model for every journalist worthy of the name and who must now practice this mantra: “What would Pelley do?” – Miles Taylor, Defiance.

Here's a NYTimes video that might help with any curiosity about James Talarico and his Senate campaign in Texas.

Thousands of people packed into a room Monday evening in Plano, Texas – a North Dallas suburb – to hear Talarico on Ken Paxton’s home turf.

Robert Reich's 3 biggest worries about the midterm elections … and what we can do about them.

The Academy and Golden Globe laureate Angelina Jolie is 51 today. She was born in 1975, Los Angeles, California.

The path on The Way.

Letting go isn’t an action to perform but a result of practice and insight. It's not about giving up or moving on, which is impossible if we think the self is the one who must do it, but inevitable once we see that the self’s claim to be the unbinder is only an appearance. In that collapse, openness reveals itself as already present. seeing through the illusory nature of a fixed self and watching acceptance and compassion arise. It's a practice because as humans we will inevitably find ourselves grasping at something else we would rather “let go.” – from “The Paradox of Letting Go” by Ronald E Purser, Tricycle, May 2026.