Now is not somewhere else. . .

Monday, July 6, 2026. It's Moon day . . . easy Nor'easterlies and a return of heat are in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown today. Sunny and mid 90s with afternoon index in the upper 90's.

Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though they thought it were somewhere else – Yamamoto Tsunetomo.

Today is the 91st birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism was born in 1935, Taktser, Tibet.

The Great 14th: Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama in His Own Words. Is an Emmy nominated film, available to stream until midnight on Friday, July 31, 2026. Following the link, you may be asked to subscribe to Tricycle. No charge for that. And you can unsubscribe.

Mexican painter Frida Kahlo was born on this day in 1907, Coyoacán, Mexico.

How to the begin the mending. – Robert Reich,Sunday Thought, 7.5.26

The Week Ahead. — Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

Jus' sayin': What if business education began not with shareholder value, but with human and planetary flourishing? What if music appreciation began with the Stones and worked back to Gregorian Chants? What if art appreciation began with Hamnet and worked back to the Stone Age? What if Creative Writing 101 began with Brautigan, Ferlinghetti, and Billy Collins and worked back to the King James?