Amazingnesses

It's Sol's day . . . The Fall transition is fully under way this week in Okieland...

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

Heather Cox Richardson's Saturday update in Letters from An American focused on Elon Musk's attempt at gaining control of the Republican Party.

The poet Sylvia Plath was born on this date in 1932, Boston, Massachusetts,

John Cleese turns 85 today. The British actor/comedian was born in 1939, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England.

In 2014 Taylor Swift released 1989, which she described as her first “official pop album.” It was a blockbuster hit and won the Grammy Award for album of the year. On the same date in 2023 she released 1989 (Taylor's Version), a rerecording of the original in order to reclaim her copywrite.

There is no such thing as being nonpolitical. Everything we say or do either affirms or critiques the status quo. Even to say nothing is to say something: The status quo—even if it is massively unjust and deceitful—is apparently okay. This “nonpolitical” stance is an illusion we must overcome. – Fr. Richard Rohr in Meditations at The Center for Action and Contemplation.

i thank You God for most this amazing

i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any—lifted from the no
of all nothing—human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

– e.e.cummings, “I thank You God for most this amazing,” XAIPE, Oxford University Press, 1950.