Connecting the dots…

It's another Moon day . . . tell that to the Sun. It was 102º when I went to the mailbox shortly after sunrise today.

“Making” a “thing” is wholly different from “Creation.” The former is finite, tending by design toward fixed. The latter infinite, and the source of ongoing change. Creation is your Source and your only real function. You are not a “thing.”

St. John of the Cross was born 482 years ago on this day in 1542 Hontiveros, Spain. He is considered one of Spain's greatest poets. Among them “The Dark Night of the Soul.”

Pulitzer poet Stephen Dunn, born in 1939 Forest Hills, New York.

The first well-known UFO sighting occurred on this day in 1947, when businessman Kenneth Arnold claimed to see a group of nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington while flying his small plane.

Speaking speed, here’s an update on highspeed rail in the U.S.

If you missed it, can't remember it, or want to re-experience it: Here is Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford University Commencement Address. Perhaps the most valuable and memorable in the history of such events anywhere.

Muse

When, in the night, I wait for her, impatient,
life seems to me, as hanging by a thread.
What just means liberty, or youth, or approbation,
when compared with the gentle piper's tread?

And she came in, threw out the mantle's edges,
declined to me with a sincere heed.
I say to her, "Did you dictate the Pages
Of Hell to Dante?" She answers, "Yes, I did."

– Anna Akhmatova

A liminal space exists between every moment.

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