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Sunday morning in Okieland . . .The sun is making a brief appearance on the mailbox . . .

. . .trust your instincts, explore your emotions, and watch as the world unfolds in magical, synchronous ways – Skye Nelson-Isaacs

Clara Barton founded The American Red Cross 142 years ago on this day in1881. She was officially installed as its first president, a position she held for 23 years.

91 years ago today, in 1932, Amelia Earhart landed her red Lockheed Vega 5B plane in a cow field near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman (and second person after Charles Lindbergh) to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She left Newfoundland, Canada, one day earlier, on May 20.

The 2011 film, “The Way,” was re-released to theaters nationwide this past week for a one-night showing, to be aired on mutiple platforms later this summer. Produced by Emilio Estevez and his father Martin Sheen. The film follows a grieving father traveling the “El Camino de Santiago.”

From “Yesterday,” by W.S. Merwin

...my father
said maybe
you have important work you are doing
or maybe you should be seeing
somebody I don't want to keep you

I look out the window
...and I got up and left him then
you know

though there was nowhere I had to go
and nothing I had to do.

— W.S. Merwin, from Opening the Hand, Atheneum. 1983.