No time like the present . . .

It's Odin's day in Okieland and only he knows where else.

The cardinal sin of the writer is falsifying life. You have no right to falsify life, ever. – Mari Sandoz, born 127 years ago today. The novelist was born on this date in 1896 Mirage Flats, south of Hay Springs, Nebraska.

The apostles of Christianity wedded to the empire we owe to Constantine, have done their best to erase the sensual information at the heart of the Gospels. But they didn’t [and don't] realize that the Magdalene didn’t need a book or a church to keep her message alive. It lives in the body. – Sophie Strand.

Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art. – Joanna Macy

Today is the 129th anniversary of Martha Graham's birth. (1894), The modern dance pioneer was born in 1894 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, founded in 1926, is now the oldest, continually performing dance company in the world and is beginning a new season of original work this Spring and Summer.

Remarkable others born on this date include Irving Berlin in 1888, “King” Joseph Oliver in 1885, Richard Feynman in 1918, and Salvador Dali in 1904

“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the time.” – Martha Graham.