Living in a haunted wood . . .
It's a windy morning here in Okieland. In Tew's day's mail box...
Jhumpa Lahiri, author of the Pulitzer Prize for The Interpreter of Maladies(1999)was born on this date in 1967 London to Bengali parents.
Today is also the 124th anniversary of Elwin Brooks (E.B.) White's birth. The essayist and author of Charlottes Web and among others the revision editor of William S. Strunk's The Elements of Style was born on this date in 1899 Mount Vernon, New York.
198 years ago today, John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States (1825 was born in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/john-quincy-adams
Today is also the day in 1533 that Henry VIII was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII. Henry had initiated the English Reformation, separating the church from papal authority. He appointed himself Supreme Head of the Church of England and dissolved convents and monasteries, for which he was excommunicated by the pope.
And in 1975 Archaeologists unearthed an army of 8,000 life-size clay figures created more than 2,000 years ago for the Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
If our egos are still in charge, we will find a “disposable” person or group on which to project our problems. People who haven’t come to at least a minimal awareness of their own shadow side will always find someone else to hate, fear, and exclude. Hatred holds a group together much more quickly and easily than love and inclusivity . . . Sadly, the history of violence and the history of religion are almost the same history. When religion remains at an immature level, it tends to create very violent people who ensconce themselves on the side of the good, the worthy, the pure, the saved. They project all their evil somewhere else and attack it over there. – Richard Rohr
...who can live for long
in an euphoric dream.
The lights must never go out,
the music must always play,
lest we should see where we are,
lost in a haunted wood,
children afraid of the night
who have never been happy or good.
– W.H. Auden (edited by jb)