Pillars of Light . . .

Saturday, January 18, 2025. It’s the Satyr’s day … and bitter cold marks my last day in  Durango, heading back to Ridgway tomorrow morning early.

When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through you. Freshness and a deep joy are signs of the current. — Rumi

Myth of the Organic City.  Given that the vast majority of the world’s lands have by now been modified by humans, urban gardens might be the best we can hope for. 

Reminders

A.A. Milne was born today in 1882, London, England.

Its the birth anniversary of motion picture icon Cary Grant. The romantic and action lead actor was born in 1904,  Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.

And Mark Rylance turns 65 today. The British actor, playwrite, and director was born in 1960, Ashford, Kent, England.

Sadly,

David Lynch has taken his last drive up on Mulholland.

In Blackwater Woods 

Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light.

(…)

To live in this world

you must be able

to do three things:

to love what is mortal;

to hold it against your bones knowing

your own life depends on it;

and, when the time comes to let it go,

to let it go.

— Mary Oliver, “In Blackwater Woods,” American Primitive, Back Bay Books, 1983. Pulitzer Prize, 1984.