Who gets to eat . . .
Tuesday, April 8, 2025. It's Tiw's day. Spring is in full for TulseyTown. Easy Southerlies are forecasted to bring clear, sun-filled skies and mid 70's
Today is the birthday celebration in Japan of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Gautama Buddha.
Today in 1935 Congress approved funding for President Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration. Known as the WPA it also included writers and artists of every ilk.
Barbara Kingsolver turns 70 today. The novelist, essayist, and poet was born in 1955 Annapolis, Maryland.
Democracy and dictatorship are political systems, they have to do with who participates in leadership. Socialism and capitalism are economic systems. It has to do with who owns the wealth of your nation, and who gets to eat. – Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible,
The week ahead. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, 4.6.25
Is it possible to will the world into [Trump's] own making—to get everyone to see his version of reality? (Trump, crazily enough, is a master at creating and reinforcing a story.) The autocrat tactic of repeating the lie as often as possible until it is accepted as truth is clearly in process. Will global leaders agree that the U.S. has been badly treated and come crawling back to renegotiate deals? Or will the rest of the world band together and say: “Enough is enough. We hold the power here. You can isolate and destroy yourself and the US economy if you choose.” – Soren 2.0
Historically, every empire has collapsed and this might well be America's moment. If it is, we likely won't be willing to recognized that it has, much less accept our part in it, until it is beyond the point of no return.
Letting go doesn’t mean giving up. It means choosing freedom over pressure. Presence over performance. Self-love over self-punishment. – Marie Foreleo
One Bird Yes
Alone flying east into the sun
not yet risen
into a welcoming sky.
We, the bird and I
share the hope of the day.
The promise of light.
I said to Roshi,
“Inside there is a yes and a no.”
He said, “Follow the yes.”
I think the bird was
following the
yes.
– james allen bethel, “One Bird Yes,” publication pending.