Some of us have to go far out into the world.

Sunday, May 25, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . with rain and lots of it. Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate possible storms all day today, and tonight, ending mid morning tomorrow. Moderate Easterlies repeating swings from upper 70's to overnight low 60's. Ah, Spring in Okieland. Hidden Treasure

Hidden Treasure

You are the treasure. And the veil hiding it. – Rumi

You and I are placed in this world of hatred, violence, anger, injustice, and oppression to help transform it, transfigure it, and change it so that there will be compassion, laughter, joy, peace, reconciliation, fellowship, friendship, togetherness, and family. We are here to bring others out of exile. – Michael Battle, in Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.

Regarding transformation:

Today is the day in 1961 that U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in a speech before Congress, committed the United States to land a man on the Moon “by the end of the decade.” The feat was accomplished eight years later in 1969 by Apollo 11.

The space opera set “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” George Lucas' film Star Wars premiered today in 1977. It quickly became one of the most successful and transformative multimedia franchises in entertainment history.

Sir Ian McKellen turns 86 today. The multiple laureate British stage and film actor was born in 1939 Lancashire , England.

On this day in 2011 after 25 seasons, the final Opra Winfrey Show was broadcast. The show made Winfrey one of the most influential personalities, not to say the richest woman in the U.S.

Today is the birth date of Bill Robinson. The stage and film dancer known as “Mister Bojangles” was born on this day in 1878, Virginia.

Sometimes A Man Stands Up During Supper
Sometimes a man stands up during supper
and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking,
because of a church that stands somewhere in the East.
And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead.

And another man, who remains inside his own house,
dies there, inside the dishes and in the glasses,
so that his children have to go far out into the world
toward that same church, which he forgot.

—Rainer Maria Rilke, from Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Robert Bly, Harper Collins, 1981.