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06/08/2026

June 8 is the birthday of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in 1867. Wright would tell his students: “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” He used natural building materials and finishes like stone and wood, never painting them, and his designs were horizontal, with low rooflines, so that the structures would blend in with the landscape (his famous “Falling Waters” house is pictured above). He designed several sacred spaces over his career, including Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, built in 1908 and now considered one of the first examples of modern architecture. A visionary and profoundly flawed man, his personal life was marked by cavalier arrogance, destructive turbulence, and persistent legal troubles, even as his philosophy of “organic architecture” reshaped modern design.

06/08/2026

To recognize something as beautiful, sometimes all it takes is a change of perspective.
CHRISTIAN COOPER

06/07/2026

06/07/2026

June 7 is the day in 1893 that Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian lawyer living in South Africa, was forcibly ejected from a train after refusing to abide by the racist policy requiring him to move to third class. The experience proved pivotal for Gandhi, spurring him along his path of developing a philosophy of nonviolent, anti-colonial resistance to imperial rule ("Satyagraha"). He eventually returned to India and helped lead the independence movement there; India at last gained independence from Great Britain in 1947.

06/07/2026

When my eyes fill with wonder and my heart with love or joy, I do not betray my concerns for the world — I nourish my capacity to attend to them.
KRISTI NELSON

06/06/2026

Acceptance anchors us so that we might focus on the present rather than endlessly drift in a sea of wishing, dreaming, and pining for anything other than what is.

ROSE ZONETTI

06/06/2026

June 6 is the birthday of poet Maxine Kumin, born in Philadelphia in 1925. Growing up, she was an avid swimmer, and trained to become an Olympian as a teenager. She also loved writing poems, and eventually became a major poet and teacher of poetry. Here’s ”Morning Swim,” one of her distinctive masterpieces, bringing together her interests in swimming and spirituality.

And here’s a glimpse of her teaching style: she would routinely ask her students to memorize 30 to 40 lines of excellent poetry a week, the better to internalize what great verse feels and sounds like. “The other reason,” she said, “as I tell their often stunned faces, is to give them an internal library to draw on when they are taken political prisoner. For many, this is an unthinkable concept; they simply do not believe in anything fervently enough to go to jail for it.”

MORNING SWIM

Into my empty head there come
a cotton beach, a dock wherefrom

I set out, oily and n**e
through mist, in chilly solitude.

There was no line, no roof or floor
To tell the water from the air.

Night fog thick as terry cloth
closed me in its fuzzy growth

I hung my bathrobe on two pegs.
I took the lake between my legs.

Invaded and invader, I
went overhand on that flat sky.

Fish twitched beneath me, quick and tame.
In their green zone they sang my name

and in the rhythm of the swim
I hummed a two-four-time slow hymn.

I hummed “Abide with Me.” The beat
rose in the fine thrash of my feet,

rose in the bubbles I put out
slantwise, trailing through my mouth.

My bones drank water; water fell
through all my doors. I was the well

that fed the lake that met my sea
in which I sang, “Abide with Me.”

+ Maxine Kumin

06/05/2026

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06/05/2026

June 5 is the anniversary of Robert Kennedy’s assassination. Kennedy had just delivered a victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel after winning California’s Democratic presidential primary, and was exiting via the hotel kitchen. A 17-year-old busboy, Juan Romero, was shaking Kennedy’s hand when the shots rang out. As several people tackled the assassin, Romero knelt next to Kennedy, and put a rosary in his hand.

06/05/2026

Grateful living is important in the world because in our constant pursuit of more and better we can easily lose sight of the riches that lay right in front of us and within us.

GURI MEHTA