A thought rises: Shalom!

It's Sol's day . . . The sun bringing reminders to the mailbox …

On this day in 1787 The U.S. Constitution was signed by 39 delegates of the Constitutional Convention.

In 1849 Harriet Tubman escaped on this date from the Southern plantation where she was enslaved and later led other enslaved people to freedom in the North along the route of what became called the Underground Railroad.

This past Friday was the 60th anniversary of the Birmingham, Alabama bombing in 1963 of the16th Street Baptist Church. The KKK initiated bombing killed 4 young girls. The event sparked the civil rights movement, succinctly outlined here by Heath Cox Richardson.

Today is the 140th anniversary of William Carlos Williams' birth. The poet was born in 1883 Rutherford, New Jersey

We are in the middle of the Judaic traditional Days of Awe, that wide gate that opens between the Birthday of the World (Rosh Hashana) and the Day of At-One-Ment (Yom Kippur) .

“There is, in sanest hours, a consciousness, a thought that rises, independent, lifted out from all else, calm, like the stars, shining eternal,” – Walt Whitman