Fire for breakfast . . .

It's Sol's day . . .

Terrance Davies passed away yesterday. The great British film director was 77.

Also yesterday, E.E. Cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings) was born, in 1894 Cambridge, Massachusetts. According to Garrison Keillor, by the end of the 1950s, Cummings had become the most popular poet in America.

And, the 34th President Dwight D. Eisenhower was born on yesterday's date in 1890 Denison, Texas.

Today is the 147th birthday of P. G. Wodehouse. The English novelist and humorist was born on this date in 1881 Guilford, Surrey, England

Debra Ponemon has offered a healing for the Israeli/Hamas confligration. Insightful and moving.

[as freedom is a breakfastfood]

as freedom is a breakfastfood

or truth can live with right and wrong

or molehills are from mountains made

—long enough and just so long

will being pay the rent of seem

and genius please the talentgang

and water most encourage flame . . .

– e..e. cummings from Complete Poems 1904-1962 (Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1994

In the Beginning

Sometimes simplicity rises

like a blossom of fire

from the white silk of your own skin.

You were there in the beginning

you heard the story, you heard the merciless

and tender words telling you where you had to go.

Exile is never easy and the journey

itself leaves a bitter taste. But then

when you heard that voice, you had to go.

You couldn't stay by the fire, you couldn't live

so close to the live flame of that compassion

you had to go out in the world and make it your own

so you could come back with

that flame in your voice, saying listen...

this warmth, this unbearable light, this fearful love...

It is all here - all here.

– David Whyte, from Fire in the Earth, Many Rivers Press; First Edition (January 1, 1992)