Saying “yes” to the mystery. . .

Sunday, March 1, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . cooling after record Spring warmth. TulseyTown forecasts indicate a cloudy day for TulseyTown with a 50/50 chance for rain this afternoon as moderate Northerlies bring temperatures down to 70º. 60% rain chance this evening.

It is not good to feel that one’s own religion alone is true and all others are false. God is one only, and not two. Different people call on Him by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Śiva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it jal [Hindi], others at another place and call it pani [Urdu], and still others at a third place and call it water. The Hindus call it jal, the Christians water, and the Mussalmans pani. But it is one and the same thing. – Sri Ramakrishna.

Growing pains – AnaLouise Keating, Wildnerness Times, in Meditations, from The Center for Action and Contemplation.

Yellowstone was named a national park on this date in 1872.

Novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison was born on this day in 1914 Oklahoma City,.

One of the most awarded poets of the 20th Century, Richard Wilbur, was born in 1921 New York City.

The poet Robert Lowell was born today in 1917 Boston, Massachusetts. Critics consider Lowell the “father of confessional poetry.”

For you:

Rita Dove & Billy Collins conduct a brief introduction to poetry workshop. It's about 10 minutes with two of the very best of our living poets.

Mysteries, Yes

… we live with mysteries

too marvelous to be understood.

…

How people come, from delight

or the scars of damage

to the comfort of a poem.

… Keep company always

with those who say “Look!”

and laugh in astonishment

and bow their heads.

– Mary Oliver, “Mysteries, Yes,” in Evidence, Beacon Press. 2009.