Uncertain tears . . .
Wednesday, April 23, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . And, according to the weatherfeather, TulseyTown's skies are cloudy with the possibility for a stray shower or thunderstorm brought by moderate Southerlies and mid 80's.
Life is uncertain. Love is not.
– Susan Moon, “Don't Fear the Reaper,” in Tricycle, reposted 4.23.25. From her book Alive Until You're Dead: Notes On The Home Stretch, Shambhala, 2022.
Recommendation: Pedro Almodovar's latest exploration of life, death and the gifts of the feminine is now on Neflix: The Room Next Door. Superb character portrayals by two of cinema's award winning artists: Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore. As with any of Aldomovar's films: most worthy of your time.
It's the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare, who is traditionally believed to have been born on this date in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
And, today is Roy Orbison's birthdate in 1936 Vernon, Texas. He would have been 89.
We hear a lot these days about “the rule of law.” So what, exactly is the rule of law? Joyce Vance, our resident legal scholar and helpful decoder provided an excellent and quite readable explanation in a recent posting on her Civil Discourse blog.
The Trump administration is making Kafka great again. – Andrew O'Hehir, in Salon, 4.20.25.
Worth recalling and repeating: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Meade
The Buddha called impermanence one of the three distinguishing marks of our existence, an incontrovertible fact of life. But it’s something we seem to resist pretty strongly. We think that if only we did this or didn’t do that, somehow we could achieve a secure, dependable, controllable life [and live forever]. How disappointed we are when things don’t work out quite the way we planned. – Pema Chödrön
There may be over a billion tears being shed today around the world.