Time is just a book of words . . .
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
It's Odin's day … Dawn in TulseyTown was bitter cold at 3º with a wind chill at -14º below zero with 4” of snow on the path to the Mailbox. The high is forecasted to be 16º above with wind chill holding at 0º sustained by Northerlies and cloud cover. Forecasts indicate no respite above freezing until Saturday albeit with the cloud cover abating and sunshine returning tomorrow.
There is nothing solid to hold on to. Even the realization that there’s nothing solid to hold on to. Notice noticing.
The greatest challenge to being alive is this: to witness injustice in the world and not allow it to extinguish your light. – Thich Nhat Hanh.
Today is the 552nd birth anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus. The astronomer/astrologer was born in 1473 Toruń, Royal Prussia, Poland. His work on what has come to be known as the “heliocenteric” model – Sun centered plantary orbits vs. the then prevailing earth-centered view – challenged almost every “received” truth and established a path to the scientific method.
On this day in 1945 U.S. Marines began their invasion of Iwo Jima. The ensuing battle was one of the bloodiest of WWII. While U.S. forces prevailed, the event remains a hard-learned lesson in war histories.
The novelist/poet Carson McCullers was born on this day in 1917 Columbus, Georgia.
On this day in 1963, journalist Betty Friedan published her first book, The Feminine Mystique. It was one of the most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century initiating a social change movement that still reverberates now well into the 21st.
And, yesterday, in Letters From An American, Heather Cox Richardson posted a major report on the status of the Trump/Musk DOGE.
From the Book of Time
...maybe just looking and listening is the real work...
For how many years have you gone through the house
shutting the windows
while the rain was still five miles away.
– Mary Oliver, “From the Book of Time,” The Leaf and the Cloud. Da Capo Press, an imprint of Perseus Books, a subsidiary of Hatchette Book Group. 2000.