Dayle Ohlau

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‘I saw the first great bough, the fruit of love and compassion, the foundation of all things.’ ~Marie Madeleine ˚ ⋆.˚⋆. mavens, connectors, intersubjectives living in États-Unis and France liberté, égalité, fraternité ꨄ︎

Image: ‘Mary Magdalene’s cave in the Sainte-Baume Grotto in the Sainte-Baume massif near Plan-d’Aups-Sainte-Baume in southeastern France, between Marseille and Aix-en-Provence. It is also described as being about 25 km from Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume and reached on foot by hiking trails.’ Today, July 22nd, is her Feast Day. A Feast Day is a special day set aside to celebrate or honor a saint, a religious event, or a sacred mystery in the Christian calendar. Pope Francis raised Saint Mary Magdalene’s commemoration from a memorial to a Feast in 2016, and was named ‘Apostle to the Apostles.’
Image: social media message from Tadej to Jonas after a crash forces Jonas out of the race on a strange crash on stage #15 of the Tour: @TADEJPOGACAR “The Tour won't be the same without you. Speedy recovery my friend. 💛” [Domestique]
Image: GC standings after Stage 14: Tour de France Domestique: 01 Tadej Pogacar UEX 51:18:28 02 Jonas Vingegaard TVL +4:30 03 Remco Evenepoel RBH +5:04 04 Paul Seixas DCT +5:19 05 Juan Ayuso LTK +5:22
Image: Kara Swisher Podcast, On with Kara Swisher, showing Kara on a mic. Link to this episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-with-kara-swisher/id1643307527?i=1000777036717
Image: Juillet 14th Eiffel Tower celebrations with drones, ‘Bonne fête nationale!’ 🇫🇷
Image: Eiffel Tower under blistering heat; two tourists with fans shielding from the heat. ‘Twenty-four departments, home to 22.2 million people according to an AFP calculation, were under the maximum alert level issued by the national weather service Meteo-France on Saturday. Another 59 departments of 96 in mainland France were under an orange heat warning, a step below the highest, as people flooded trains and highways at the start of a holiday weekend ahead of France's national public holiday on July 14. Across France, many towns have called off their firework displays for Bastille Day due to increased fires and dry conditions.’ — [TheLocal.fr]
Image: book: ‘Braver New World—The Countries Daring to Do Things Others Won’t’ by John Kampfner, journalist and POLITICO contributor. ‘Europe can learn from places that have found unusually good answers to big problems, from Vienna’s housing model to Finland’s schools and Estonia’s digital state, places where political leaders have actually managed to implement successful policies on fundamental issues, from education and climate change to housing. So what does it take to tackle those problems well?’ [From Brussels Playbook Podcast] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brussels-playbook-podcast/id1244862657
Image: graduated colors from cool, blue, to very warm, red, showing GLOBAL DAILY SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES, 1982-2025. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ocean-telling-us-climate-story-most-clearly-tom-pickerell-phd-fmba-cqnme [Climate Central, Rapid Ocean Warming, Climate Matters, 2025.]
Image: an activist holding a sign showing a drawing of the earth that reads: ‘Earth needs thinkers not deniers.’
Image: Ben Rhodes book, ‘All We Say, The Battle For American Identity A History in 15 Speeches.’ -Ben Rhodes [2026]
Image: Gollum. ‘Gollum was originally the hobbit Sméagol, is a tragic and complex character from The Lord of the Rings, corrupted by the One Ring, which he calls "my precious". The Ring's power twisted his body and mind over centuries, creating a dual personality: the remnants of Sméagol and the darker, obsessive "Gollum" persona, named for his guttural cough. He serves as both a guide and a hindrance to Frodo and Sam, ultimately playing a crucial role in the Ring's destruction, though he is a cautionary tale of greed and addiction.’
Image: Cover of the book ‘Opus’ in black and gold/white lettering: ‘The Cult of: DARK MONEY, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, and RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY inside the CATHOLIC CHURCH ー by GARETH GORE "Vividly told and excellently researched." —FINANCIAL TIMES — ‘It is also the name of a Catholic organization founded in Madrid on October 2, 1928, by Saint Josemaría Escrivá, who named it after a vision he claimed to have received. He chose the name specifically to emphasize that the organization was not his own work, but God’s.’
Image: logo from podcast The Grill Room [PUCK] with Dylan Byers & Julia Alexander with the green BP logo in the lower right as their title sponsor.
Image: B&W photo of Lanza del Vasto.
Text: "She lets that voice, that frequency of love guide her, inform her, walk with her all the remaining days of her life." [A passage from Meggan Watterson’s essay.]
Image: Heat exhausted pedestrians. [BuzzFeed]
Image: Ultra red | orange map showing extreme heat levels across Europe. https://www.thelocal.fr/
Brilliant red / orange map image of heat dome across Europe this week. [Reuters]
Image of a planet on fire across Europe this week: “Temperatures are set to climb across Europe on June 22, with a projected 40 degrees Celsius across parts of France.” -Reuters [40 Celsius is 104 Fahrenheit.] https://reut.rs/4oKg88S
“Good Morning, at 1440, we believe curiosity is more than a trait—it's a muscle. Exercised daily, it sharpens the mind, fuels discovery and drives lifelong learning and growth. Since 2017, we've delivered fact-forward news and knowledge to millions of curious readers. The 1440 Daily Digest brings you up to speed on what's happening each day, while 1440 Topics lets you go deep with staff-written explainers and the most fascinating and foundational resources we've found across thousands of topics. Happy learning!” —Drew Steigerwald, 1440 Cofounder Image: Painting of Founding Fathers gathered in a room, scattered about with some sitting at a table while creating a United States government. [Photo credit commons.wikimedia.org.]
Image: “Pope Leo XIV walked into the Rome headquarters of the United Nations World Food Programme on Monday and told the people who run the world’s largest hunger-fighting operation that the global order has learned to feed wars faster than it feeds the starving.” -Christopher Hale, ‘Letters from Leo’
“We had the honor of hosting the very first reading in the President's Reading Room. On Juneteenth, we gathered with a group of very wise (and very wiggly) little readers to share The 5 O'Clock Band—a story about music, mentorship, and the magic that happens when when a young person finds their voice.” -Suleika Jaouad, writer, advocate, and wife to Jon.
Image: Art piece illustrating the archetype Chiron as a centaur, in muted greys and white and yellow 🌾with a small heart-shaped wing accompanying his journey, “to find new alternative ways to come back into balance with our Earth, our bodies, our foundations and our values.” [Mystic Mama]
Image: a photo of Marianne’s book cover from 2019—a dark orange and light blue map of the United States reading, ‘MARIANNE WILLIAMSON AUTHOR OF A RETURN TO LOVE A HANDBOOK FOR A NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION POLITICS OF LOVE’ ღ ⸝⸝
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gestures during the inaugural parade inside Capitol One Arena in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. Watchdog groups criticized the apparent “Roman salute,” while one extremist group hailed it as a “powerful symbol.” (Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images) [SPLCenter.org]
Photo: black & white image of Montana Rep. Jeannette Rankin sitting in a large ornate fabric draped chair, 1917.
Image: photo of June taken last year at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. [NYTimes]
Image: Front page of NYTimes, D-Day in 1944 with the headline reading, ‘ALLIED ARMIES LAND IN FRANCE IN THE HAVRE-CHERBOURG AREA; GREAT INVASION IS UNDER WAY — Essay from Marianne Williamson: https://open.substack.com/pub/mariannewilliamson/p/remembering-d-day?r=58pna8&utm_medium=ios
Image: AI Model growth.
Image: Book cover, ‘Italics,’ by Alison Davis, a book of her poems, in orange, yellow, and blue. — Poet Alison Davis finds blessings for those who are on the edges of who they are and what they think they know. [Center for Action and Contemplation] “A Blessing for Those at the Edge” Maybe you walked here. Maybe you ran here. Maybe you followed a trail of stones, of feathers, of flowers, of scents, of sky. Maybe you went afoot with the Mystery & so how you got here is also a mystery. But here is where you are & here is always its own kind of blessing & here at the edge, blessings compound. Bless those at the edge of the river of their heart, full of promise. Bless those at the edge of the morning, singing the bright face of day into the blue. Bless those at the edge of what they know, watching the old certainties crumble. Bless those at the edge of doom, bearing it out, as the famous bard wrote, with or without the draw of a happy ending. Bless those at the edge of love of self, of other, of world, as the way forward grows more subtle, less sound. Bless those at the edge of language, whose tongues & tales & names are more pledge than guarantee. Bless those at the edge of believing a life can be lived at the edge.’
Statement from Scott Pelley: “There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes. The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. "60" has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration. The waste is heartbreaking. Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos. For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I've been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”
The image depicts a large scale imposed over a super B l u e Moon on a light pink background weighing the contents of a heart on one side, and and a feather on the other. From yogi and author Seane Corn, studying truth, balance, integrity, and alignment through ritual, journaling, prayer, and sacred intention. 𖧷
Photo captured in Mary Magdalene’s cave at Sainte-Baume, France. ˚ ⋆ 🤎.˚⋆
Image: Whitehouse aerial before DJT and now. Complete carnage.
Image: a photo taken in Domrémy, northeastern France, of a single red poppy in a field of green. ღ
Image: photo taken in Domrémy, France, Jeanne d’Arc’s home village, showing a red poppy growing from a small opening in an ancient stone wall. Gaia’s resilience, and g r a c e.
Image: A framed photo of the Beatles first performance at the Ed Sullivan Theatre in 1964 presented to Stephen Colbert by Sir Paul McCartney on his final Late Night show in the Ed Sullivan Theatre on Thursday, May 21, 2026. ღ
Image: Bertrand Russell photographed in 1936, sitting with his pipe in b & w. [Radical Tea Towel] radicalteatowel.co.uk
Image: FDR art and text supporting affordable abundance from the folks at Radical Tea Towel—‘historical, political and social movement tea towels. [radicalteatowel.co.uk] Text: "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
Image: black and white photo of Anna Jarvis — Later she would condemn what she saw as profiteering and the distortion of her original intent organizing boycotts to stop the runaway capitalism. She organized boycotts, called for people to stop buying flowers and cards, and even pursued legal action against groups using the Mother’s Day name. By the end of her life, she reportedly expressed regret over having created the holiday at all. ꨄ︎
Image: Anna Jarvis, 1864-1948 — Jarvis envisioned Mother’s Day as an intimate, personal expression of gratitude—handwritten letters, visits, and simple gestures—rather than a market-driven occasion. As florists, confectioners, and greeting-card companies aggressively promoted the day, she condemned what she saw as profiteering and the distortion of her original intent. She organized boycotts, called for people to stop buying flowers and cards, and even pursued legal action against groups using the Mother’s Day name. By the end of her life, she reportedly expressed regret over having created the holiday at all. 𖧷
[Photo: Martin B. Cherry, a staff photographer for the Nashville Banner]
Image: ‘Rep. Justin Jones (D-TN) burning a confederate flag during the Tennessee legislature's special session.’ R E V O L T ˎˊ˗ [Photo: Martin B. Cherry, a staff photographer for the Nashville Banner]
Image: side-by-side photos of DJT’s youngest son Barron, and French politician Jordan Bardella, who at first glance, look like the same person. We need an investigation! :)
Image: logo for World Press Freedom Day, “Truth Independence Impact” May 3, 2026 [Drawing of hand gripping microphone and pencil.]
Image showing chart depicting rankings of countries on the Press Freedom list.
Descriptive alt text Image: a red giant heart sign at a rally with the words: 'UnTrump The World' in large white letters.' "It ends when we admit that racism still occupies the throne of this country. -Professor Eddie Glaude, speaking on
Image: grey scale photo of people mobilizing at a rally promoting 'May Day Strong' for Friday, May 1st, across the United States of America.
Image: a red giant heart sign at a rally with the words: 'UnTrump The World' in large white letters.' "It ends when we admit that racism still occupies the throne of this country. -Professor Eddie Glaude, speaking on MSNOW.
Image: grey scale photo of people mobilizing at a rally promoting ‘May Day Strong’ for Friday, May 1st, across the United States of America.
Image: promotional sign in gold and black encouraging an economic boycott in the United States of America on Friday May 1st. It reads: ‘MAY DAY 2026 — a nationwide day of collective action Friday, May 1, 2026. WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES MAYDAYSTRONG.ORG’
Image: NAACP president Derrick Johnson with the text of his quote hi lighter superimposed over his photo, reading: "Today's decision is a devastating blow to what remains of the Voting Rights Act, and a license for corrupt politicians who want to rig the system by silencing entire communities. The Supreme Court betrayed Black voters, they betrayed America, and they betrayed our democracy. This ruling is a major setback for our nation and threatens to erode the hard-won victories we've fought, bled, and died for. But the people still can fight back. Our best defense and offense is the ballot box, and we're going to turn out voters in the midterm elections to make sure we can elect representatives who look out for us. Our democracy is crying for help." ⊹
Image: NAACP president Derrick Johnson with the text of his quote hi lighter superimposed over his photo, reading: "Today's decision is a devastating blow to what remains of the Voting Rights Act, and a license for corrupt politicians who want to rig the system by silencing entire communities. The Supreme Court betrayed Black voters, they betrayed America, and they betrayed our democracy. This ruling is a major setback for our nation and threatens to erode the hard-won victories we've fought, bled, and died for. But the people still can fight back. Our best defense and offense is the ballot box, and we're going to turn out voters in the midterm elections to make sure we can elect representatives who look out for us. Our democracy is crying for help." ⊹
Image: BP logo — light greens and bright yellow star motif, white background. BP: British multinational oil and gas company
Photo of Melania’s backside a number of year’s ago with her green coat displaying the message, “I don’t care, do you?” Testify, Melania. #Epstein
Trying to determine if this post from a virtual news organization called Puck and their reporter Peter Hamby really wrote these comments: “New @PuckNews: The American left has a problem - political violence, conspiracy theories and crazy talk are increasingly coming from inside the house Left-wing violence is rising — and voters increasingly blame liberals for our toxic politics.” Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social posted his comments when he shared the screen shot: “Another real article written by a real human in 2026.”
Screenshot image posted on Blue Sky from 60 Minutes with correspondent Norah O’Donnell. The conversation reads: “O'DONNELL: In [the suspected shooter's] manifesto, he wrote that 'I'm no longer willing to permit a p*dophile, *pist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.' What's your reaction? TRUMP: I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you're horrible people. I'm not a r*pist. I didn't r*pe anybody. I'm not a p*dophile. O'DONNELL: Oh, do you think he was referring to you? TRUMP: Excuse me. You read that crap from a sick person. I was totally exonerated. You should be ashamed of yourself, reading that. You're a disgrace.” …and scene.