Cribbing from Rilke . . .

Tuesday, August 26, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . The weatherfeather indicates a cloudy day for TulseyTown. Moderate Easterlies, low 80's and a slight rain chance. More rain indicated tomorrow and Thursday. The Fall transition continues.

Have patience with everything that is unsolved in your heart and try to cherish the questions themselves. – Rilke

More than 70 years of struggle by the suffragist movement ended today in 1920 as the 19th Amendment was formally incorporated into the U.S. Constitution. It proclaims "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

Today is the birth date of Peggy Guggenheim. The modern art collector and memoirist was born in 1898 New York City. “Fight all day, sex all night...” – attributed (anon.) to Peggy Guggenheim.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? – Mary Oliver

… no one cares or bothers

to read anymore those soto voce

below-radar flights from the empirical.

“So why do you write poems?”

the stewardess asked. “I guess

it's because every angel is terrible,

still though, alas, I daily invoke these

almost deadly birds of the soul.”

And I cribbed that from Rilke.

— Jim Harrison, from The Theory and Practice of Rivers, first ed. Winn Books, 1985; reissued by Copper Canyon Press, 2025. This selection from “The Essential Poems,” Copper Canyon Press, 2019.