Milk and other choices . . .

Sunday, September 28, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . Easy Southeasterlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown this lovely Fall day. Sunny, some puffy clouds creating shadow dances. Upper 80's.

It's nonviolence or nonexistence. MLK

How does one achieve enlightenment? Just add milk. – Sophie Strand, “Milk Song,” on Make Me Good Soil, 9.28.25.

On this day in1066 William the Conqueror of Normandy arrived on British soil. He defeated the British in the Battle of Hastings on October 14, and on Christmas Day, he was crowned King of England in Westminster Abby.

And, today in 1781 The Siege of Yorktown began, eventually leading on October 19 to the British surrender by General Lord Cornwallis and the end of the American Revolution.

The Past Tense, The Future Perfect

Somewhere in each of us is an echo

expressive of every time past and future life

we have had and will have.

That past often has quite a bit of pain

but enough love to recognize in that

echo of the future that it –

the future – is wholly a construct of love.

What we do in the present

manifests what comes next.

By holding on to the past

we bring the pain of our poor choices

and sorrow for all the guilt we carry.

Only by letting go into the unfolding present

– absent tense – may we find that

love has embraced us.

Letting go of all tenses may –

even in the minds of our loved ones

– result, in a judgement

that we may have lost ours.

– jab