Dancing
In the mailbox this rainy, Tulsa, Fall Monday, morning . . .
A dark day in American history, in1929, the U.S. Stock Market crashed. Known as "Black Thursday, it triggered the Great Depression which, in turn had repercussions world wide.
Today is the 99th anniversary of the birth of poet Denise Levertov, in Ilford, England (1923).
The word processor doesn't take as much time as actually forming the letters with your hand at the end of your arm which is attached to your body. It's a different kind of thing. They don't realize that this laborious process is part of the creative process. – Denise Levertov
Poetry presents . . . a powerful way to disrupt the habitual momentum of the mind, its automatic reactions and obsessive self-concerns . . . Poets help us experience [a pause]. Indeed, a poet may be defined as one who stops, one who steps out of the ongoing flow of experience and look at it, and to help us do the same. – John Brehm
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. – Alan Watts
. . . The pageant of digits comprising the number pi
doesn’t stop at the page’s edge.
It goes on across the table, through the air,
over a wall, a leaf, a bird’s nest, clouds, straight into the sky . . .
. . . the selfsame forces that made the universe also made
the figuring instrument with which
we try to comprehend it. – Maria Popova