The Way is lit by an inner light

It's the Moon's day . . . waning toward New

“I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.” – Sojourner Truth

To see through the darkness, you have to take off the rose-colored-make-believe glasses.

Allen Ginsberg was born 98 years ago today in 1926 Newark, New Jersey.

“As an American, I condemn a Republican Fascist just as much as I condemn a Democrat Communist. They are equally dangerous to you and me and to our country. As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves … It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques—techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.” – Senator Margaret Chase Smith, in 1950. Cited by Heather Cox Richardson in Letters from an American.

… our elders, the trees, are issuing us a collective call to: "grow down, small humans, grow down” … Back in 2020, in the midst of the unknowing of that time, a tiny bacteria invited us, among other things, into a quieter and darker space, where we couldn't grow upward anymore ." – Victoria Loorz

[The] wisdom teachings are paradoxical: we come home to unconditional love not by looking to receive it from outside ourselves but by finding it to be the true nature of our own boundless mind and heart. – Susan Gillis Chapman