Making sense of It.
In the mailbox this first sunny morning in a while . . .
On this date in 1945 American soldiers liberated 30,000 prisoners from a concentration camp in Dachau, Germany
Today is the 124th anniversary of Duke Ellington's birth. The composer, pianist, and bandleader was born on this date in 1899 Washington, D.C.
It is also Jerry Seinfeld's birthday. The yada, yada, yada comedian was born on this day in 1954 Brooklyn, New York
Birthdays yesterday: playwright Robert Anderson, born in 1917 New York City and best known for Tea and Sympathy, about the relationship between a prep school boy and his housemaster’s wife, Directed by Elia Kazan, It debuted on Broadway in 1953; Harper Lee, the author of the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird was born on this date in 1926 Monroeville, Alabama; and it's the 145th anniversary of actor and director Lionel Barrymore's birth in 1878 Philadelphia into the famous Barrymore acting family. His films included Grand Hotel, Dinner at Eight, You Can’t Take it With You, and It's a Wonderful Life.
It is not a “thing,” if anything it is an “It” and It is all One Thing. So, it can't be a “thing.”
Giordano Bruno, an early advocate of the Copernican model, was burned alive in Rome. Among his heresies was his philosophy, affirming that ‘the whole is one’ and that ‘Nature … is none other than God in things’ – Giordano Bruno in 1600. Giordano wasn't the only one. We've advanced from burning people to books being burned by the same old ideology in the hands of the same old politicians. https://aeon.co/essays/why-giordano-bruno-is-still-a-free-speech-hero-today
What I say comes not from me, but from the consciousness common to all of us . . . . As one individual changes, the system changes. – Ram Dass
Laura, the housemaster's lonely wife, shows Tom understanding. As she says to her husband: "The boy is more of a man than you are. Manliness is not all swagger and swearing and mountain-climbing. Manliness is also tenderness, gentleness, consideration. You men think you can decide on who is a man when only a woman can really know." Finally, Laura offers herself to him to prove his sexual normality. As she brings the boy's hand to her open blouse, she says: "Years from now, when you talk about this - and you will - be kind.” – Robert Anderson, from Tea and Sympathy.