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Weather: Showers and thunderstorms before 11am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 11am and 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. High near 81. Light northeast wind increasing to 5 to 9 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Wednesday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 67. Light north wind.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee meets at 9 a.m. at the Airline Room at the Daytona Beach International Airport. The TPO’s planning oversight includes all of Volusia County and Flagler County, with board representation those jurisdictions. The committee is responsible for reviewing plans, policies, and procedures and rank priority projects as they relate to bicycle and pedestrian issues within the TPO planning area. See the full agendas here. To join the meeting electronically, go here.
Conversations in Democracy: An open, freewheeling discussion on topics here in our community (today focusing on the western expansion), around Florida and throughout the United States, noon to 1 p.m. at Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse Pub & Grillroom (no purchase is necessary), 400 Pine Lakes Pkwy, Palm Coast (0.7 miles from Belle Terre Parkway). Call (386) 445-0852 for best directions. All are welcome! Everyone’s voice is important. For further information email [email protected] or call Merrill at 804-914-4460.
The Circle of Light Course in Miracles study group meets at a private residence in Palm Coast every Wednesday at 1:20 PM. There is a $2 love donation that goes to the store for the use of their room. If you have your own book, please bring it. All students of the Course are welcome. There is also an introductory group at 1:00 PM. The group is facilitated by Aynne McAvoy, who can be reached at [email protected] for location and information.
Notebook: “I want to be part of something bigger than myself.” We hear that often. It’s a noble idea. At least it sounds like a noble idea. I’d guess that 95 percent of those you’d ask would consider it a supremely noble idea, if not a necessity of life. It is usually if not exclusively intended as a virtue signal. A paradoxical one: you want to be part of something bigger, but you sometimes–not always–want to make sure everyone else knows about it. It often has a religious or mystical or, in its grimmer forms, ideological or nationalistic component: belief in God, in nation, in the military, in one’s corporation. Adherence to Hegel’s universal spirit, or Emerson’s watered-down “oversoul.” That sort of thing. Is your soul not complicated enough? Why is an individual so eager to be part of something bigger than the self if not to escape the hardest job at hand–the perfection of the self, so that better self can more effectively serve the broader cause you allege to want to serve? You are inherently part of something bigger once you earn it. Until then, are you not more of a drag, a cog, a self-deluding escape artist who uses that bigger cause to hide in, to self-efface and shrug off your responsibility to self? I am reminded of the parent who coaches little league, is a deacon at his church and takes youth groups to save Nicaraguan villages from heathens but couldn’t relate to his own children for crap, or the employee whose identity is indistinguishable from his company’s and is otherwise a bore, or the believer who goes on a crusade, joins pogroms, murders a few people, and weeps at his own devotion to the cause before returning home to resume a life of domestic brutality. Totalitarian regimes or their less complete approximations, like the maga regression we’re living through, are the ultimate bigger than oneself allegiances, which at bottom are the reverse of what they claim to be. Rather than service to cause, they are abdications. They are sublimations of personal ethics and responsibility. You are not part of something bigger. You are purposely losing yourself in it. I prefer Candide’s conclusion.
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June 2026
In Court: Joshua King Arraignment
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Library Board of Trustees
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
Hammock Community Association Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
In Court: Jermaine Williams Status Hearing
Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board Meeting
Conversations in Democracy
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
For the full calendar, go here.
Human insurrection, in its elevated and tragic forms, is and can only be a long protest against death, an enraged accusation of this condition governed by the generalized death penalty. In all the cases that we have encountered, the protest, each time, is addressed to everything which, in creation, is dissonance, opacity, solution of continuity. It is therefore, essentially, an endless demand for unity. The refusal of death, the desire for duration and transparency, are the springs of all these madnesses, sublime or childish. Is it just the cowardly and personal refusal to die? No, since many of these rebels paid what was necessary to live up to their demands. The rebel does not ask for life, but for the reasons for life. He refuses the consequence that death brings. If nothing lasts, nothing is justified, what dies is deprived of meaning. To fight against death is to claim the meaning of life, to fight for rule and for unity.
–From Albert Camus’ The Rebel (1951).
Pogo says
David Foster Wallace would have almost been nine years younger than me, but decided not to.
https://www.google.com/search?q=David+Foster+Wallace
It’s only Wednesday and the end of the story is told — what to do with the rest of the week?
Pessimism is always a choice, but shortcuts and self-indulgence — understated, are usually unfortunate.
https://www.google.com/search?q=pessimism+synonym
Tomorrow is another day.
Laurel says
Hang in there. What life has taught me is that things change.
Pogo says
You’re worried about the wrong hombre.
Laurel says
Okay, good! But isn’t it nice to be worried about? 😊
Pogo says
Yes 😺
Ray W. says
A Morning Overview reporter writes of the differences between locating a 7,000-ton American attack submarine and a 120-ton Iranian mini-submarine hidden in the Strait of Hormuz that, at its deepest point, is less than 200 feet deep. The former can barely hide. The latter is difficult to find, even by the most skilled searchers.
The reporter cites to a 2019 report released by the U.S. Department of Defense, titled “Iran Military Power Report Statement”, which report was but one of a series of reports released to the public.
The report’s author wrote this of Iran’s naval posture in 2019:
“Secondly, Iran’s naval capabilities emphasize the anti-access area denial strategy. Benefitting from Iran’s geostrategic position along the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s layered maritime capabilities emphasize asymmetric tactics using numerous platforms and weapons intended to overwhelm an adversary’s naval force. The full range of these capabilities includes ship- and shore-launched anti-ship cruise missiles, small boats, naval mines, submarines, unmanned aerial vehicles, anti-ship ballistic missiles and air defenses.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
In 2019, our Department of Defense told the American people that Iran did not intend to focus on defeating an adversary’s military forces. Rather, Iran intended to control its waters via an asymmetric strategy of multi-layered deterrence.
If what the Department of Defense published in 2019 remains true, has that asymmetric Iranian strategy worked?
Since February 28th, only two U.S. Navy destroyers have transited the Strait of Hormuz from the Persian Gulf; the two destroyers escorted two commercial vessels through the Strait. The Iranians unsuccessfully attacked the mini-convoy, losing seven small boats in the attack. But, Iranian small boat forces attacked and disabled six other commercial ships and they rocketed an oil distribution complex located on the shore of the Gulf of Oman, closing the port to crude oil tankers. The Saudi’s immediately protested the Navy’s action and forbad American forces from using Saudi bases and by closing its airspace to the American military overflights.
The Strait remains closed to commercial shipping. Is Iran’s described strategy of layered asymmetries working?