Somebody's gotta do it . . .
It's Odin's day … a warming trend – if you can call low 30's and upper 50's warming – is settling into TulseyTown, mixing Northerlies and Southerlies and slight rain chances in the longer term forecasts. In other words: Okieland in early Winter.
Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don’t interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however … We can bring ourselves back to the spiritual path countless times every day simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment—over and over again. – Pema Chödrön
Today in 1918, Nobel Prize laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918, Kislovodsk, Russia.
My fave, poet, novelist and screenplay writer — dare I say role model — Jim Harrison was born on today's date in 1937 Grayling, Michigan.
And, the writer Thomas McGuane, who convinced Jim Harrison to write his first novel, turns 85 today. He was born in 1939 Wyandotte, Michigan (1939
Somebody has to be committed to the idea of truth – Tom McGuane
Why, to write down the stuff
and people of everyday,
must poems be dressed in gold,
in old fearful stone? …
I want poems stained
by hands and everydayness.