Get real . . .

It's the Satyr's day . . . previews of Summer attractions are underway in Okieland today: 90's, almost no wind, and maybe a 1% chance for rain …

The Watercourse moves mountains too... in 1980 At 8:32 a.m. this day— it was a Sunday — an earthquake struck the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington, causing a massive eruption.

Sabine Hossenfelder is getting real about climate change.

It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that because you don't like something, it is empirically not good. I don't like Chinese food, but I don't write articles trying to prove it doesn't exist. – That's Tina Fey, whose birthday is today. The sharp-as-a-tack comedian, actress, writer and producer was born 54 years ago today in 1970 Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.

How about solving humanity’s biggest challenges through the adoption of biomimicry and adapting it into education, culture, and industry.

Even the gatekeepers are sick of dealing with gatekeepers. Creatives are thinking smaller to make a bigger impact.

Among Sorrows and Songs

a Tree Dreams

– for Sophie, after Rilke

My mind deepens in the dark hours

opening to another life

wide and timeless.

There I am a gravesite tree

making real the dream

its living roots embrace

among sorrows and songs.

A dream lost but now found.

– jab