Prelude to an echo

It's Tiw's day … and TulseyTown is anticipating record heat this afternoon. The rollercoaster weather is forecasted until the middle of next week.

You are not what happened to you. You are who you choose to become.

The Week Ahead, not your ho-hum as usual. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse

Going Nazi: How it happens. Heather Cox Richardson, Letters From an American.

Creatives birthdays today:

The psychologist and author Timothy Leary was born in 1920, Springfield, Massachusetts He along with Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) promoted the use of LSD while researchers at Harvard Univerity.

Catherine Deneuve turns 81 today. The French actress was born in 1943, Paris, France

The composer and pianist Franz Liszt was born on this day in 1811, Doborján, kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire [now Raiding, Austria ]

The full truth is invariably unsatisfying—at least to the small self. Which may explain why so many of us are such poor listeners. – Fr. Richard Rohr

Gaslighting in the name of God.

Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing? You know you will die, but you really don’t know how long you have to wake up from the cocoon of your habitual patterns. – Pema Chödrön

Going to Walden

It isn't very far as highways lie.

… in a book I read and cherish,

going to Walden is not so easy a thing

as a green visit. It is the slow and difficult

trick of living and finding it where you are.

– Mary Oliver, “Going to Walden,” from The River Styx, Ohio. Harcourt, 1973.

The end of a prelude that reached from Austria to The Lone Ranger.