Handmade enlightenment . . .

In the Satyr's day mailbox . . .

Today is the birthday of Margaret Atwood. The poet and novelist was born on this date in 1939 Ottowa, Canada.

Does it bring me any closer to enlightenment if I just gather with more of my own kind so we can collectively piss on everyone who doesn’t understand us? – Tina Lear. Check the link to Ms. Lear and while there don't overlook her link to her dog Ruby. Interspecies communication if ever . . .

Men need to get better at thinking like people and beings who are not men. – Sophie Strand in her challenging book The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine.

If we want to freely navigate the sense of self and the world: we do it through ambiguity, possibility, changing states, and ways of experiencing and expressing ourselves—not through the negating or affirming of a self. – Martin Aylward

You find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. – Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, by A.A. Milne