Stephen King, on writing:

 

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.
- Stephen King.

Recommended reading – Beeswax Alchemy (2015)

Beeswax Alchemy:
How to Make Your Own Soap, Candles, Balms, Creams, and Salves from the Hive

by Petra Ahnert.

 
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 1592539793
ISBN-13: 978-1592539796
 
Description:
 

“This is the book I’ve been waiting thirty years for. Excellent instructions. Bountiful information. Beautifully done.” – Kim Flottum, beekeeper; author of The Backyard Beekeeper, Better Beekeeping, and The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook; and editor of Bee Culture magazine.

 

Create natural beeswax products for health and home.
 

Beeswax is truly the miracle of the beehive. Although honeybees use it to build their hives and protect their young, you can use it to make everything from candles to lip balm to decorative fabric.

 

Regardless of whether you are a veteran beekeeper or someone who just likes the way beeswax looks and smells, you’ll learn from apiarist and entrepreneur Petra Ahnert, who will teach you how to transform this miraculous material into the beautiful, useful, and unexpected.

 

Inside you’ll find:

• An introduction to beeswax’s form and functions.
• Tips and techniques for transforming beeswax into useful products for home and health.
• Detailed recipes to get you started crafting your own soaps, balms, salves, and more.

Born on this day – Fanny Schreck:

Fanny Schreck

Actress

July 15, 1877 – December 11, 1951

Credits:

Alles aus Liebe (1943); Der Herr im Haus (1940); Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. (1931); Die Nichte aus USA (1937); Die Stimme aus dem Äther (1939); Die Talfahrt des Severin Hoyey (1922); Eine Stunde (1940); Matrimonial Strike (1935); Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014); Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922); Rote Mühle (1940); Silvesternacht am Alexanderplatz (1939); That really old vampire movie (2014); The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935); The Hunter of Fall (1936).

Born on this day – Marjorie Rambeau:

Marjorie Rambeau

Actress

July 15, 1889 – July 6, 1970

Credits:

20 Mule Team (1940); A Man Called Peter (1955); A Modern Hero (1934); A Tailor Made Man (1931); Abandoned (1949); Any Number Can Play (1949); Army Wives (1944); Bad for Each Other (1953); Breakdowns of 1938 (1938); Broadway (1942); Compression (1995); Dizzy Dames (1935); East of the River (1940); First Lady (1937); Forever Female (1953); General Electric Theater (1953–1956); Grand Canary (1934); Great Day (1930); Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939); Hell Divers (1931); Her Man (1930); In Old Oklahoma (1943); Inspiration (1931); It's Murder She Says... (1945); Laugh It Off (1939); Laughing Sinners (1931); Left Over Ladies (1931); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Man of a Thousand Faces (1957); Man's Castle (1933); Mary Moreland (1917); Merrily We Live (1938); Min and Bill (1930); Motherhood (1917); National Red Cross Pageant (1917); Oh, What a Night! (1944); Palooka (1934); Primrose Path (1940); Ready for Love (1934); Salome, Where She Danced (1945); Santa Fe Marshal (1940); Silence (1931); Slander (1957); Son of India (1931); Starland Review No. 5 (1922); Strangers May Kiss (1931); Strictly Personal (1933); Sudden Money (1939); Syncopating Sue (1926); The Common Cause (1919); The Dazzling Miss Davison (1917); The Debt (1917); The Easiest Way (1931); The Ford Television Theatre (1955–1956); The Fortune Teller (1920); The Greater Woman (1917); The Lucky Stiff (1949); The Mirror (1917); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The Rains Came (1939); The Secret 6 (1931); The View from Pompey's Head (1955); The Walls of Jericho (1948); The Warrior's Husband (1933); This Is Your Life (1956–1959); This Modern Age (1931); Three Sons o' Guns (1941); Tobacco Road (1941); Torch Song (1953); Trader Horn (1931); Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940); Under Pressure (1935); Woman Against Woman (1938).

Born on this day – Enid Bennett:

 

Enid Bennett

Actress

July 15, 1893 – May 14, 1969

Credits:

A Desert Wooing (1918); A Fool's Awakening (1924); A Tour of the Thomas Ince Studio (1920); A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios (1920); A Woman's Heart (1926); Coals of Fire (1918); Enid Bennett in a Liberty Loan Appeal (1918); Fuss and Feathers (1918); Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1916); Good Medicine (1929); Hairpins (1920); Happiness (1917); Happy Though Married (1919); Her Husband's Friend (1920); Intermezzo (1939); Keeping Up with Lizzie (1921); Meet Dr. Christian (1939); Naughty, Naughty! (1918); Officer 666 (1916); Partners Three (1919); Princess of the Dark (1917); Robin Hood (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 7 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 22-F (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 17 (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 6, No. 2 (1925); Silk Hosiery (1920); Skippy (1931); Sooky (1931); Stepping Out (1919); Strangers of the Night (1923); Strike Up the Band (1940); The Aryan (1916); The Bad Man (1923); The Big Store (1941); The Biggest Show on Earth (1918); The Bootlegger's Daughter (1922); The Courtship of Myles Standish (1923); The False Road (1920); The Flag: A Story Inspired by the Tradition of Betsy Ross (1927); The Girl, Glory (1917); The Haunted Bedroom (1919); The Keys of the Righteous (1918); The Law of Men (1919); The Little Brother (1917); The Marriage Ring (1918); The Mother Instinct (1917); The Red Lily (1924); The Sea Hawk (1924); The Vamp (1918); The Virtuous Thief (1919); The Woman in the Suitcase (1920); The Wrong Mr. Wright (1927); They're Off (1917); Waterloo Bridge (1931); What Every Woman Learns (1919); When Do We Eat? (1918); World of Robin Hood (2006); Your Friend and Mine (1923).

Born on this day – Sidney Hickox:

Sidney Hickox

Cinematographer

July 15, 1895 – May 16, 1982

Born on this day – Washboard Sam:

Washboard Sam

Blues singer

Musician

July 15, 1910 – November 6, 1966

Credits:

Albums:

Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam (1962); Diggin' My Potatoes (2021); Harmonica and Washboard Blues 1937-1940 (Blues for Ever) (2003); Presenting Washboard Sam (1935); The Genius Of (2007); The Very Best Of (2009); Washboard Sam 1935-1947: Swinging the Blues (1999); Washboard Sam Vol. 1 (1935-1936) (2005); Washboard Sam Vol. 2 (1937-1938) (2005); Washboard Sam Vol. 3 (1938) (2005); Washboard Sam Vol. 4 1939-1940 (2005); Washboard Sam Vol. 5 1940-1941 (2005); Washboard Sam Vol. 6 1941-1942 (2005); Washboard Sam Vol. 7 1942-1949 (2005); Washboard Selection (2020); Washboard Swing (2008).