Loneliness, welcome

The Moon continues its waxing journey tonight in Okieland after a light dusting of snow on the ground in TulseyTown overnight.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) appears to be approaching a point of no return with potential disastrous effects for Europe and both North and South America.

Probably the smartest person ever elected to be President, Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809 Hodgenville, Kentucky.

It's also the birthday of Charles Darwin. The author of the concept of evolution was born in 1809 Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.

It was yesterday in 1858 that 14-year old Bernadette of Lourdes began experiencing apparitions of a "young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby cave-grotto.

Unless we are very, very careful, we doom each other by holding onto images of one another based on preconceptions that are in turn based on indifference to what is other than ourselves...The opposite of this inattention is love, is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery. – Anne Truitt

“Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.” ― Carl Sandburg (Lincoln’s biographer).