Doubtful door-knocking . . .
Sunday, May 18, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . The weatherfeather indicates that thunderstorm chances for TulseyTown today are slightly less than 50-50 this afternoon rising to 70% tonight. Some of them could be strong. Moderate Southeasterlies are to maintain low 80's.
British philosopher mathematician and Nobel Laureate Bertrand Russell was born on this day in 1872 Ravenscroft, Monmouthshire. His influence continues.
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other....The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. – Bertrand Russell
Ignore the calculated firehose of outrageous distractions. If his lips are moving, he's lying. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.
Wake up, folks. The tornado is on your doorstep, and this time you’re not going to get a warning. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.
The occasional Sunday Sermon:
As the inventors of agriculture and the primary food-gatherers, early humans made the image of the female the first personification of the divine, if you will, the source of all life – nurturers and life-givers. And like the woman who heals in the Xian Gospel of Matthew, we must continue to transgress boundaries, resist cultural norms, and press on toward healing for the sake of our children and their children and their children's children. What does resistance to domination, exploitation, and hierarchy look like in your day-to-day life? – Kat Armas, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 5.17.25
No matter the religion or denomination in which we are raised, our spirituality still comes through the first filter of our own life experience...There is no such thing as an entirely unbiased position. The best we can do is own and be honest about our own filters. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 5.18.25.
Knock on Your Own Door
...after Sophie Strand
Duality is recognized but not embraced
by the feminine, rather
celebrates the liminal
that confuses the unintegrated
masculine, landlocked
in the absolutes of polarities.
The “inner voice” isn't confined
behind the physical door
of the brain-case.
It is a call and response
through the senses
as much in touch
with the flotsam
as the jetsam
of The Way.
– jab