A Butterfly Searches for Chaos . . .

It's Odin's day . . . and the heat teaches us patience . . .

We are unwilling to throw the mystical baby out with the institutionalized bathwater. – Mirbai Starr

“The moving ever shall stay.” – Basava, cited by Brian McLaren discussing necessary disruption imbedded in change.

Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay. — Basava

The Butterfly Effect

I dreamed I was a butterfly.

Now I do not know if I am a human

who dreamt of being a butterfly,

or a butterfly dreaming

I am a human. ― The Zhuangzi

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s waiting out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it. – Pema Chödrön

Rita Dove turns 71 today. The U.S. Poet Laureate was born in 1952 Akron, Ohio.

Insomnia Etiquette

There's a movie on, so I watch it.

The usual white people
in love, distress. The usual tears.

… I get up for some scotch and Stilton.
I don’t turn on the lights.
I like moving through the dark
while the world sleeps on

… I know tomorrow I will regret
having the Stilton. I will regret

… all those years I could get lost
in anything. Until then

it’s just me and you,
Brother Night—moonless,
plunked down behind enemy lines
with no maps, no matches.
The woods deep.
Cheers. — Rita Dove, “Insomnia Etiquette” in Slate Magazine, Apr 3, 2012.

If your search is honest there is no doubt you will find what you are looking for, by whatever its name.