Every Town is Our Town

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 . It’s Odin’s day … and yers trooly heads back to TulseyTown.

To be an ordinary, everyday mystic is to take your rightful place on the throne of what is.— Mirabai Starr, in Meditations at The Center for Action and Meditation.  

Today is the birth date of George Balanchine. The most influential choreographer of classical ballet in the United States in the 20th century was born in 1904, St. Petersburg, Russia.  

Today is also the 237th birth anniversary of the poet Lord Byron. He was born in 1788, London, England. 

In 1938 Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town premiered at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. It won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and it is now estimated that, on average, Our Town is performed at least once every night somewhere in the world. 

Film director Jim Jarmusch turns 72 today. The Canne’s festival Palm D’Or laureate is known for transcending genre conventions, he was born in 1953, Akron, Ohio. 

Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein was born on this day in 1898, Riga, Latvia, Russian Empire, His pioneering work includes the three film classics Battleship Potemkin (1925), Alexander Nevsky (1938), and Ivan the Terrible. 

We can see. And we can still be blind. We can read and we can still be illiterate. What do we choose not to include in our field of vision? — Sophie Strand, “An Eye For An Eye,” on her blog Make Me Good Soil. 

What are the hopes of man? old Egypt's King

   Cheops erected the first pyramid

And largest, thinking it was just the thing

   To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid 

(…)Let not a monument give you or me hopes,

Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. 

— Lord Byron, from Don Juan: Canto 1