The soprano, dreaming . . .

It's the Moon's day . . . and it's brand new everywhere, not just inTulseyTown where we're getting a preview of Winter's bone-chill this morning.

You, reading this, be ready . . .

Today is the birth date of Maria Callas. The American-born Greek operatic soprano was born on this day in 1923, New York City.

The week ahead from Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

The handwriting is not only missing from the chalk board, but the board itself is missing. Many of the comparatively few universities that serve rural students are eliminating large numbers of programs and majors, blaming plummeting enrollment and resulting financial crises. Nationwide...An increasing number of rural private, nonprofit colleges are not only cutting majors, but closing altogether.

Invisible is what lies beyond us, below us, inside us and even above us: beyond our sight, above or below the limits of our hearing or our imagination, inside that outer wrapping of our personality we call a self. – David Whyte

We live and die in real bodies. Sophie Strand's critique of the film “We Live in Time.”

A Dream Within a Dream

. . . You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

– Edgar Allen Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream.” this poem is in the public domain.