The world's a sage . . .

It's a Satyr's day . . . a true friend of Dionysus, dancing with Spring in Okieland.

Yesterday was the 204th anniversary of Maine joining the union, leading to the survival of our democracy. – Heather Cox Richardson.

“If it could have been solved with words, it would have been solved already...There is something else within us…” – Cynthia Bourgeault, opening the Metapmorphosis Forum on Contemplative-based social change: An alternative to the negative bias in our reptilian brains and in journalism. A video summary report from the Garrison Institute. Worth your time.

‘All the world’s a stage’ is not just a Shakespearian metaphor. It's also the truth about the how, where, and even the when of our public and private lives. – Lucy McDonald writing for Aeon in The Magic of the Mundane, 15 March 2024.

The imperfect beauty of wabi-sabi.

Debra Ponemon, this morning, applied wabi-sabi to walking the nobel path for the answer to the question “Why does stuff happen?”

In Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993), Beatrice, played by Emma Thompson, recites a poem to open the film, setting the tone for the story. Branagh's film is known for its faithful adaptation of Shakespeare's play, and the opening with Beatrice reciting the poem is one of the many elements that captures the essence of the original work, notwithstanding he uses the original speech by Balthazar (a male) which appears later in the Shakespeare text. Purposeful wabi-sabi if ever there was one. – with Chat/GTP assistance.

(from Much Ado About Nothing – film version opening by Beatrice)

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.

Men were deceivers ever,

One foot in sea, and one on shore,

To one thing constant never.

Then sigh not so, but let them go,

And be you blithe and bonny,

Converting all your sounds of woe

Into hey nonny, nonny.