Thor's fictive spirit

It's Odin's day . . . True to his son Thor's fictive spirit, Hurricane Milton is on track to make landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast tonight and Thursday bringing epic catastrophe not seen in a hundred years. The wind-field of some 400 miles across are forecasted for the Gulf Coast beginning this afternoon with landfall tonight. Devastating 150 mph winds and storm surge of up to 15 feet high in some places are likely.

It's Leif Ericson Day. Ericson reached "Vinland" (likely L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada) sometime in the fall of 1000 C.E, reputedly becoming the first European to reach North America.

If the “God” word carries too much baggage, as it does for many, a small gratitude that the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life will do in place. Gratitude is an expression of confidence in life itself.

Wilding

In a dark time, the eye begins to see a lord of nature weeping to a tree ...

I live between the heron and the wren.

Between beasts of the hill and serpents of the den.

– Theodore Roethke, from the poem “In a Dark Time,” first publication likely in the New Yorker, 1960.