Parting the seas . . .

It's Odin's day . . . with thunderstorms and a full moon over Okieland today and tomorrow …

Yesterday, The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued an historical opinion – with major potential consequences – that greenhouse gas emissions are marine pollution under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and parties to the treaty "have the specific obligation to adopt laws and regulations to prevent, reduce, and control" them.

Also yesterday: True to form, Trump declined to testify despite all his protestations outside the courtroom in Manhattan at his criminal trial where final arguments are due next week. Juries cannot consider in any manner the fact that a defendant doesn’t testify. But the court of public opinion is under no such obligation. And, notably, it is the court of public opinion that is voting in November. – in today's Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson.

The Handmaid’s Tale Halloween costumes are no longer ironically funny. Especially not with Trump and his “unified Reichs” on the ballot this year. – Joyce Vance

However the world manifests itself, we have a job to do: Offering our own peace of mind.

What it takes to find true peace of mind:

(1) seeing what is;
(2) grounding in nondual wisdom;
(3) avoiding fundamentalist thinking; and
(4) embracing the boundless nature of the vow to bring this awareness to every being.

Rain

I do not anymore wish to be “useful,” to lead

children, the innocent, the ignorant, into another text

of civility to teach them that they are (they are not)

better than the grass, nor the sea.

– after Mary Oliver, “Rain,” in New and Selected Poems: Volume One, Beacon Press, 2004.