“Interbeing” in a New World

It's the Moon's day . . . a cool walk to the Mailbox . . .

Among the principles that guide me is the idea that we can (and must) practice being free. A page like this is one place to do just that. So is the voting booth. (prompted by Holly Wren Spaulding)

Trump's mind is truly out to sea. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters from An American.

Today is the 196th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy's birth. The novelist who penned War and Peace was born into nobility near Tula, Russia in1828.

The author of Lost Horizon and Goodbye Mr. Chips, James Hilton, was born on this date in 1900 Leigh, Lancashire, England

Missed yesterday

One of the defining works of the Renaissance, Michelangelo's masterpiece David, was unveiled in the Piazza della Signoria in 1504 Florence.

In 1941 German and Finnish armies began a siege of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, which lasted for 872 days.

The actor with an astonishing number of characters, Peter Sellers, was born September 8, 1925, in Southsea, England.

Today in 1966, the first episode of Star Trek aired on NBC television.

And, Antonín Dvořák was born in 1841, Nelahozeves, Bohemia, Austrian Empire near Prague (now the Czech Republic).

The Buddhist concept of “no-self” does not mean the absence of a self nor its disappearance. “No-self” means simply that there is no self separate from all other selves. We are all “interbeings,” wholly and universally interconnected, no better demonstrated than by this video of the Dvořák Symphony #9, 4th movement, Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel and the Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert, recorded June 2, 2019. Worth every 13 minutes of your time.