Saint who?

In the mailbox this 27th of 2023 February waxing Moon Day

Today is the 216th anniversary of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's birth. The poet was born in Portland, Maine on this date in 1807.

While the Watercourse was carving for aeons, and after a 30 year opposition from ranchers, miners, and entrepreneurs, President Woodrow Wilson established the Grand Canyon National Park on this date yesterday 104 years ago in 1919.

The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it. – Sri Nisargadatta

Saints so love the world that they yield to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, they trace with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. Their houses are dangerous and finite, but they are at home in the world. . .loving the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such... balancing monsters of love. – Leonard Cohen (adapted and edited) posted by Maria Popova in The Marginalian.

It's John Steinbeck's birthday. He was born 121 years ago today in 1902 Salinas, California.