Dating Creation. . .

It's Tew's day ahead of a forecasted week of rain in TulseyTown . . . in the mailbox this morning:

Today is the anniversary that the stock market crash in 1929. The “great crash” brought about a ten year depression impacting most of the world.

The poet who said: "I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer" – Denise Levertov – was born on today's date in 1923 Ilford, England.

Today is the 119th anniversary of Moss Hart's birth. The playwright was born on this date in 1904 New York City. About his lifetime affair with theatre, Hart said: the theater made possible the art of being somebody else … not a scrawny boy with bad teeth, a funny name … and a mother who was a distant drudge.

Creativity: Part I

With ego’s notion of creation, you have a concept that you want to achieve something, and you try to match your situation with your idea of the actual achievement. You compare the dream and the actual reality. That is not the ultimate creative process but a one-way creation which can wear out. You build a thing and it is finished; your have no further place to go. It is a very limited inspiration. – Chögyam Trungpa

Without real solitude, no serious work is possible. – Pablo Picasso

Carbon Dating

He tried it once

as a last resort,

but most of the women

were a million years old.

– by Billy Collins from Musical Tables: Poems, Random House. 2022