Contemplating clarity . . .
It's the Satyr's day . . . appropriately the mailbox is heating up with political considerations . . .
Philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre, was born 118 years ago yesterday in 1905 Paris.
We are our choices … I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar. — Sartre
The European Union has formally given the green light to a new binding agreement to restore degraded ecosystems across land and sea in a bid to improve climate mitigation and adaptation, and enhance food security. . It is now in force.
The Sinclair Broadcast Group's stations have been flooding its local media websites with cheap fakes and other stories suggesting that President Biden is “mentally unfit for office.” – Heather Cox Richardson, on her post Letters from an American.
KTUL TV in TulseyTown, broadcasting on Channel 8, is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group
Joyce Vance on her site Civil Discourse posted a very concerning video from John Oliver. His detailing of what is called Project 2025 is essential for understanding what is at stake in the November Presidential election.
It has been commonly argued – from Karl Marx to Milton Friedman to Steve Jobs – that it is precisely moments of crisis like [the ones we now face] that provide opportunities for transformative change and innovation. Might it be possible to leverage the instability that appears to threaten us? – Roman Krznaric, The Disruption Nexis, Aeon, 21 June 2024.
Trying to Name What Doesn’t Change
. . .
Stars explode.
The rose curls up as if there is fire in the petals.
The cat who knew me is buried under the bush.
The train whistle still wails its ancient sound
but when it goes away, shrinking back
from the walls of the brain,
it takes something different with it every time.
– Naomi Shihab Nye, Words Under the Words: Selected Poems. Far Corner Books, 1995.