The Tranquil Wild

In the Saturday mailbox this sunny 11th of 2023 February . . .

Birthday's today: It's the 176th anniversary of Thomas Alva Edison's birth, in 1847 Milan, Ohio; also on today's date 66 years ago novelist and travel writer Pico Iyer was born to Indian parents in 1957 Oxford, England;

The Watercourse moves with the vast tranquility of the Cosmos—even now, as it unleashes this Great Vanishing called by some as the Sixth Great Extinction. – David Hinton (adapted)

It's impossible: remembering wild and not wanting it back. – Mary Oliver. (adapted)