The wandering mind . . .

Saturday, August 9, 2025. ­It's the Satyr's day . . . and the weatherfeather has turned into a rubber stamp: Southerlies, a few clouds, and indices above 100º.

You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. — Mark Twain

The award laureate actress, Audrey Tautou (Amélie), turns 49 today She was born in 1976, Beaumont, Auvergne, France

Today in 1854, Henry David Thoreau published Walden.

The poet Philip Larkin was born on this day in 1922 Coventry, England. He was considered one of the great English poets of his time.

Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, born in 1896 Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Known for his research in child development and as the author of The Theory of Cognitive Devlopment which included major pioneering research in human intelligence.

Can you coax your mind from its wandering
and keep to the original oneness?

[…]

having without possessing,
acting with no expectations,
leading and not trying to control:
this is the supreme virtue.

— Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching, verse 10, translation by Stephen Mitchell.