Imfamousity . . .

It's Odin's day … and ohm-chants were emerging from the mailbox this morning . . .

At 11:28 a.m. New York Time this morning, the jurors in the Manhattan trial retired (without their phones but with a court and attorneys-approved laptop containing the evidential evidence) to consider the guilt or innocence of Donald J. Trump facing 34 counts of criminal behavior.

The materialist's world is quite simple and solid, just as the madman is quite sure he is sane. – That's G.K. Chesterton. The English author , philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic was born on this day in 1874 London.

Today is also the birth date of the 35th President of The United States, John F. Kennedy. He was born 107 years ago today in 1917 Brookline, Massachusetts.

Seeing when you justify yourself and when you blame others is not a reason to criticize yourself, but actually an opportunity to recognize what all people do and how it imprisons us in a very limited perspective of this world. It’s a chance to see that you’re holding on to your interpretation of reality; it allows you to reflect that that’s all it is – nothing more, nothing less. The reality is, it's just your interpretation of reality. – Pema Chödrön, from The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving-Kindness, Shambhala, 2018.

I gotta mow the backyard today before the rains come again. . .