Mercy, wild . . .

Friday, May 2, 2025. It's Freya's day … and overnight rains left TulseyTown this morning. Moderate Northerlies and mid 70's are in the forecasts with cloudy skies clearing this evening.

In the mailbox

Mirabai Starr turns 64 today. An award-winning author, internationally acclaimed speaker, and interspiritual teacher, she was born in 1961 New York.

The inner crisis. – Soren, 2.0.

The outer crisis: At the nation’s elite military academies, the library stacks are being emptied by executive order....directives are sweeping through the Naval Academy, West Point, the Air Force Academy, and the Coast Guard Academy, all under the guise of complying with President Trump’s executive order banning “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) content and concepts.

Law day and Trump day. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.

As Trump’s poll numbers continue to fall, It’s not clear that Congress will embrace the cuts DOGE has made willy-nilly throughout the government. This slightly more positive view was posted yesterday by Heather Cox Richardson in her Letters From An American.

Resist dogma. Accept uncertainty like a pragmatist. – Michael Bacon, Psyche

And today in 1611 the King James version of The Bible was published.

“When we show up to make art, we need to get still enough to hear what wants to be expressed though us, and then we need to step out of the way and let it. We must be willing to abide in a space of not knowing before we can settle into knowing.” ― Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics, Sounds True, 2019,