Finding a voice in silence …

It's Sol's day . . . and the full “Thunder Moon” continues tonight and into Monday morning, along with the Perseid meteor shower under way now, peaking ten days into August . . .

Garry Trudeau turns 76 today. The Pulitzer Prize laureate for editorial cartooning – “Doonesbury”-- was born in 1948 New York City.

Two born today on 1899, almost next door to one another: Ernest Hemingway, born in Oak Park, Illinois and Hart Crane, born in Garrettsville, Ohio

“ 200 Years of Solitude,” There is a silence at the center of each person — an untrammeled space where the inner voice grows free to speak. That space expands in solitude. To create anything — a poem, a painting, a theorem — is to find the voice in the silence that has something to say to the world. In solitude, we may begin to hear in the silence the song of our own lives. – Maria Popova, The Marginalian, 16 July 2024.

Humanity's search for cosmic truth and poetic beauty: TED talk by Maria Popova

How to be a Poet
(to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
You must depend upon
affection, reading, knowledge,
skill — more of each
than you have . . .

Accept what comes from silence.
Make the best you can of it.
Of the little words that come
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came.

— Wendell Berry, New and Collected Poems, Counterpoint, 2013.