August Vignettes

See also the previous Wild Reed August 2026 posts:
• Abdul El-Sayed: The Disruptor Michigan (and the Country) Needs
• Why the American Political Establishment Is Panicking
• “Like a Stream Running Into the Ocean”
• No Plausible Justification
• Jonny Rashid: Quote of the Day – August 10, 2026
• Kadeem En Pointe: Finding Freedom in Dance
• MPR’s Major (But Unsurprising) Failure
• Photo of the Day – August 13, 2026
• Rejecting “Cartoonish Conclusions” About Marxism and Dealing with the “Actual Architecture of Our Current Reality”
• Mapping Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Defection from the “Obama Hypnosis”
• Ashley Stevens: Quote of the Day – August 18, 2026
• Mysticism and Miracles
• “Woke 1.0” as Revisionist History
• A Mesmerizing Performance
• Choosing to Awaken
• “Rest in Peace, Dear Prophet Dolly”
• Genevieve Fraser: Quote of the Day – August 26, 2026
• Four Political Commentaries Worth Viewing
• Spider-Man in Minneapolis
• Remembering the Dolly Parton and Dionne Warwick Duet . . . and Celebrating Dolly as a “Kind of American Folk Saint”
• Memes of the Times
• The Crowned Spirit of the Wild

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• August Vignettes (2025)
• August Vignettes (2024)
• August Vignettes (2023)
• The Summer of My Wildebeest-of-a-Bike
• A Summer Sunset Psalm
• The Dance of a Summer Day
• Summer Vignettes (2022)
• O Breath of Summer
• Summer Blooms
• Eternal Summer

Images: Michael J. Bayly.

July Vignettes

See also the previous Wild Reed July 2026 posts:
• Tad Stoermer: Disillusioned With America? That’s Actually a Good Thing
• Matthew Remski on Historian Heather Cox Richardson’s “Really Superficial” Understanding of How to Fight Fascism
• Jeff Waldorf: Quote of the Day – July 3, 2026
• On July 4th, Two Very Different Marches
• Tommy J. Housman on Reactions to the “Defining Image” of Trump’s America
Stacey Patton: Quote of the Day – July 7, 2026
• I Am One With the Beloved
• “The World Is Watching”: Salazar Felicita on the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
• Mark Greene on How ICE Is a Weapon of the Epstein Class
• “Hazardous for Everyone”
• Remembering the Romanovs
• The Serpent: Not the Enemy of Ascension But Its Guardian
• Chase T. M. Anderson: “‘Queer’ Has Become One of the Most Elegant and Powerful Words I Use to Describe Myself”
• Inayat Khan and the Sufi Message
• A Precise Metaphysical Claim
• “Our Country Right Now Is At a Crossroads”
• A Classic Duet Turns 50
• Mariana Hernandez Debunks Mike Johnson’s Fear-Mongering Graphic
• Living From the Heart
• Awakenings

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• July Vignettes (2025)
• July Vignettes (2024)
• July Vignettes (2023)
• The Summer of My Wildebeest-of-a-Bike
• A Summer Sunset Psalm
• The Dance of a Summer Day
• Summer Vignettes (2022)
• On This Summer Solstice, A Proclamation of the Power of Fire
• Celebrating the Summer Solstice
• O Breath of Summer
• Summer Blooms
• Eternal Summer

Images: Michael J. Bayly.

June Vignettes

See also the previous Wild Reed June 2026 posts:
• Carlos LeMar Dixon: Without Revolutionary Action, We’re Just “Entertaining the Kings”
• Kadeem
• Kshama Sawant on the Real Reason for Jacobin Magazine’s “Hatchet Job” on Chris Smalls
• Adam Bates: Quote of the Day – June 9, 2026
• “This Is Not a Moment to Be Silent”
• Pope Leo XIV: Quote of the Day – June 11, 2026
• Aligning With the Divine
• Chris Smalls’ “Unforgivable Sin”: Connecting the Warehouse to the Empire
• Dalloway Day
• Christopher Schoenherr on Why America Couldn’t Hear Marianne Williamson
• Christopher Schoenherr on Marianne Williamson’s Politics of Love
• Photo of the Day – June 16, 2026
• Eric Karl Anderson on the Secret Story Behind Mrs Dalloway
• Dorothy Lennon on What We Won’t Hear Today at the Opening of the Obama Presidential Library
• “The Fascist Fist Is Tightening Because It Knows That It Is Losing Its Grasp on Us”
• Remembering How the Freedom of Juneteenth “Did Not Arrive as a Friendly Announcement”
• Jacob Crosse: “The Obama Presidential Center Is a Monument to Hypocrisy”
• A Message in Dance That Challenges, Inspires and Liberates
• A Solstice Eve Walk Through the Neighborhood
• The Fatherly Heart
• The Wild Man
• Memes of the Times
• A Course in Miracles: A Gift of Peace
• Being One With the Beloved, the Source of All Things
• Welcome to the U.S.A. . . . Officially
• Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
• Queer Perspectives on an Anti-Queer Op-Ed
• With the Green Party at Twin Cities Pride

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• June Vignettes (2025)
• June Vignettes (2023)
• The Summer of My Wildebeest-of-a-Bike
• A Summer Sunset Psalm
• The Dance of a Summer Day
• Summer Vignettes (2022)
• On This Summer Solstice, A Proclamation of the Power of Fire
• Celebrating the Summer Solstice
• O Breath of Summer
• Summer Blooms
• Thomas Moore on the Circling of Nature as the Best Way to Find Our Substance
• Eternal Summer

Images: Michael J. Bayly.