To find the world . . .

Welcome back. I’ve been sidetracked for a couple of days. Today is Freya's day with a major Winter front moving through OkieLand . . .

The Lunar New Year and Year of the Dragon is upon us, under an eclipsed new moon . Spooky.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was established yesterday in 1927 by Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). .

Today is the 148th birth anniversary of John Griffith (Jack) London The writer of “Call of the Wild,” among others, was born on this date in 1876 San Francisco.

It's also the day in 1856 that painter John Singer Sargent was born in Florence, Italy.

And, its the 396th anniversary of Charles Perrault's birth. The French writer of Tales of Mother Goose was born on this day in 1628 Paris.

In order to have the capacity to “move the world,” the great teachers say, is really quite down to earth and practical, and doesn’t require life in a monastery. – Richard Rohr

Lost

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.

– David Wagoner, from Collected Poems 1956-1976 (Indiana University Press).