It's Sol's day . . . Moderate Northerlies, sunny skies, low 80's are in the forecasts for this Mother's Day in TulseyTown. A Full “flower” Moon rises at about 7:50 this evening.
It's “Mother's Day” in the U.S. Many countries around the world have a multi-century history of a day to celebrate mothers. In the U.S. that day is today. On this Mother's Day Sunday, Fr. Rohr's Meditation calls us to embrace the sacred feminine.
Today is the birthday of Salvador Dalí. The Spanish surrealist artist and filmmaker was born in 1904 Figueras, Spain.
And, it's the birth day of Richard Feynman. Widely regarded as the most brilliant, influential, and iconoclastic figure in theoretical physics in the post-World War II era, he was born in 1918, New York City. He contributed to the development of the Atomic Bomb project and was also a Nobel Prize Laureate, musician and a bit of a raconteur.
This year marks the 927th birth anniversary of Hildegard of Bingen. The polymath, writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, medical writer and practitioner was born in 1089. She is also She has been considered by a number of scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history. While the mists of time have blurred her actual birthdate, we are fortunate to have many of her gifts still influencing our time.
Those of us who are truly lucky have more than one mother. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Marriage Vow
The gap:
Between these letters, words on this page,
spoken in this or the next or another
room.
Silence:
the mother of creation.
Bride's-maid of the ten-thousand things.
– jab