At the altar of busyness . . .
Saturday, May 30, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . . It's sweat-pants o'clock for a high humidity Summer-like day in TulseyTown and Green Country. Forecasts include slight rain chances, increasing cloudiness into the afternoon with strong Southerlies and low 90's.
Joy on the signpost indicates The Way to awakening.
We're living in a culture that worships at the altar of busyness. Most of us grew up following someone else's schedule — school bells, work deadlines, family needs — and somewhere along the way, we may have easily lost touch with what mattered most to us. If you don't prioritize your time, someone / something else will. And will fill it up REAL quick. – Marie Forleo
Watch your breath. Your brain will thank you.
… thinking makes it so … – Hamlet. A new study published in Geriatrics in 2026 by Yale researchers Becca Levy and Martin Slade showed that one of the most significant predictors of future brain health was the beliefs participants held about aging itself.
In Trump news:
Today in 2014 Donald Trump became the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime after a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with a hush-money payment in 2016 to the adult-film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels,
Trump has finally overplayed his hand. A federal judge in Virginia has temporarily blocked the administration from moving ahead with Trump's controversial $1.8 billion fund that could give apologies and/or money to people who believe they were wrongly investigated. It's on hold until at least a June 12th hearing. – Robert Reich, The Final Straw, 5.29.26
Today is the feast day for St. Joan of Arc born c.1412, Domrémy, Bar, France.
Other worlds for hard days. – Sophie Strand, Make Me Good Soil, 25.29.26
And, its the birthdate of the “King of Swing” jazz band leader, clarinet virtuoso Benny Goodman. He was born in 1909, Chicago, Illinois.
For Goodman, there was only one way. If you can't … don't.
Beastly sanity . . .
Friday, May 29, 2026. It's Freya's day . . . A cloudy start to the day. There is a 50/50 chance for thunderstorms developing this afternoon. Winds are to be Southerly, moderate, but gusty in any stray storm. Upper 80’s are forecasted for TulseyTown and Green Country.
Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way. – Yasunari Kawabata
Now treating the nation’s capital as his property, Trump appears to be leaning on his past role as a real estate developer as a solution in Iran remains elusive, inflation in the U.S. climbs, and his popularity drops. – Heather Cox Richardson, in today's Letters From An American.
Trump and E. Jean Carroll. Trump’s vengeance is totally unhinged. – Robert Reich, 5.29.26
Is E. Jean Carroll being “investigated,” or not? – Joyce Vance, in today's Civil Discourse.
Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du Printemps — The Rite of Spring — premiered tonight in 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Rumor has it there was a riot. The rumor became a highly successful marketing meme.
President John F. Kennedy was born on this day in 1917, Brookline, Massachusetts.
The brilliant orator and a major figure of the American Revolution, Patrick Henry, was born in 1736, Studley, Virginia.
Today is also the birthdate of Bob Hope. The British-born American comedian was born in 1903 Eltham, near London, England. Inaddition to his famous comedic skills, he was also an actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years with achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours. He appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, starring in 54,
And G.K. Chesterton was born today in 1874, London, England. He was a sharp-witted English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories. He made his points with wit and paradox, and in such a large body of work, there is no shortage of quotable material. If you don't know him, you ought.
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. But the materialist’s world is quite simple and solid, just as the madman is quite sure he is sane. – G.K. Chesterston, Orthodoxy, Ignatius Press. 1908.
Remembering Miss Moneypenney . . .
Thursday, May 28, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . Moderate Southerlies and rain chances are in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown today. A cooler afternoon upper 70's to near 80º.
Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling. – Trever Noah
The man who built his political career on silencing inconvenient witnesses just proposed a government-wide gag order on two million federal workers. – Miles Taylor, Defiance, 5.27.26.
Republicans can look forward in Texas to dumping another $250 million into trying to get Paxton elected, running against James Talarico, money that they needed to flip Democratic seats elsewhere. Republicans are increasingly relying on a playbook from the 1800's. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American posted for today.
Glory Days. – Joyce Vance, in today's Civil Discourse. To the point: Support James Talarico in Texas.
One of the most accomplished all-around athletes in history, Jim Thorpe, was born today in 1888 Prague, Oklahoma.
Today is also the birthdate of Ian Fleming. Born in 1908, London, England, the suspense-fiction novelist gave us the character James Bond – the stylish, high-living British secret service agent 007.
Sonny Rollins, whose forceful and imaginative approach to the tenor saxophone made him one of the dominant jazz musicians of the post-World War II era, died at his home in Woodstock, N.Y., on Monday. He was 95.
And, the poet May Swenson was born on this day in 1913 Logan, Utah.
A party isn’t a party unless people dance.
My baby’s a Democrat / But when I wear a top hat / And carry a cane, I engage her, / She forgets I’m an English major. /
Yes, I’m a bibliophile / And I’m old but I’ve got style. / When I’m in a subjunctive mood, / I don’t sit in the dark and brood, /
I let the music fill my senses / And conjugate my tenses. / A gentleman of grace and glamour / Who can dance with perfect grammar, /
I like to practice seduction / By elegant sentence construction.
Garrison Keillor, “The Man at the Typewiter,” The Column. 5.27.26