The wild and lonely self . . .

Thursday, May 29, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . Morning rains are already ending as I check the Mailbox here in TulseyTown. The weatherfeather indicates slight rain chances throughout the cool, cloudy day. Easy Northerlies are to bring a peek at the sun off and on through the day.

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere. – W.S. Merwin.

The courts agree: Trump's tariff's are illegal. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

Big Bird is fighting back. – Joyce Vance in Civil Discourse.

After a night at the Strauss opera Salome, Garrison wonders about an opera with Trump as Herod.

Today is the 108th birth anniversary of our 35th President, John F. Kennedy. The youngest President was born on this dayin 1917 Brookline, Massachusetts.

And on this day in 1953, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest

The Shadow Self II

Creating a false self to mask fears and insecurities has become so common that many of us forget who we are and what we feel underneath the pretense – bell hooks, in Mediations, The Center for Action and Meditation.

Our optics of the self, the way in which the individual becomes “subjective center of the world,” is the defining feature of this most recent chapter of the history of our species. And yet everything around us reveals its illusory nature. – Maria Popova, The Marginalian.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. – John Muir

Wild, Wild

[…] Wild sings the bird of the heart

in the forests of our lives.

[…] Why couldn't Romeo have

settled for someone else?

[…] Over and over Faust,

standing in the garden,

doesn't know anything,

he only sees the face of Marguerite,

which is irresistible.

And wild, wild sings the bird.

– Mary Oliver, “Wild Wild,” New and Selected Poems, Vol. Two, Beacon Press. 2005.