light over darkness

In Thor's mailbox this morning ahead of forecasted record heat . . .

. . . at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter – Rilke

Hope is a light that darkness can never contain. – Steven Charleston, from Ladder to the Light: An Indigenous Elder's Meditations on Hope and Courage. Minneapolis, MN: Broadleaf Books, 2021 – posted today in Meditations at the Center for Action and Contemplation. The “Trail of tears” ended in March of 1839 near where I now live in Okieland.

“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.”-- Daniel Gilbert

Today is the 123rd anniversary of French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's birth. The author of The Little Prince was born on this day in 1900 Lyon, France.

On this day in 1613, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre burned to the ground. The thatched roof caught on fire after a theatrical cannon misfired during a production of Henry VIII.

And,. Frank Loesser was born today in 1920 New York City. The composer, librettist, and lyricist wrote “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” in 1944, which he sold to MGM in 1948 for the film Neptune’s Daughter. The song won the Academy Award and serves as a reminder of the potential for better things to come under the 109º heat index forecasted for today in TulseyTown of Okieland.

Hope is the thing with feathers

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

– Emily Dickenson