What's that noise?

It's Odin's day . . . He who was found of making waves and rattling cages.

We are all in this together. So when you realize that you’re talking to yourself, label it “thinking” and notice your tone of voice. Let it be compassionate and gentle and humorous. Then you’ll be changing old stuck patterns that are shared by the whole human race. Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves. – Pema Chödrön, from Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living, Shambhala, 2018.

Today is the 546th anniversary of Sir Thomas More's birth. born in 1478 London. The Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII was beheaded for not being a “yes” man to Henry's designs on the laws of the church.

Three authors share this birth date across the years — Charles Dickens was born in 1812 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England; the author of Little House on the Prarie, Laura Ingalls Wilder, was born in 1867 Pepin, Wisconsin; and, the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, Sinclair Lewis, was born on this day in 1885 Sauk Centre, Minnesota.

The Beatles landed in New York City today in 1964, launching the British Invasion.

An earthquake of a different kind occurred today in 1812. The New Madrid quakes were the largest in U.S. history.

Are you sensing a series of breakthroughs bubbling up under the surface of our fear-based, click-bait outer shell? – Karen Doyle Grossman, writing at The Garrison Institute, 7 February 2024.

When no new songs come your way

… What then? …

At the edge of something

unspeakable, unsingable …

Redefine the song.

Something else up there,

or down there

awaits, holding its breath,

waiting to be spoken. – Vijay Sundaram, “Songless, Groundless,” in Fractured Lens, Cervena Barva Press, 2023.