Learning from others . . .
It's a Moon-day … The Turning (Harvest) Moon is waning . . .
It's the 154th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth. Born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the religious and political leader born in1869 western India.
The poet/physician Wallace Stevens was born on this date 144 years ago in 1879 Reading, Pennsylvania.
It's Groucho Marx's birth date. The comedian was born in 1890 New York City.
The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The reader became the book; and summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book.
The house was quiet and the world was calm.
–Wallace Stevens from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. Alfred A. Knopf, 1954, 1982.
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. – Gandhi