Where does time go? Or come from for that matter . . .

In the Moon day mailbox . . .

Yesterday, July 9, 1868, Americans changed the U.S. Constitution for the fourteenth time, adapting our foundational document to construct a new nation without systematic Black enslavement.

The Fourteenth Amendment provides that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. . .No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. . .Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.” – Heather Cox Richardson

Today is the birthdate of inventor Nikola Tesla, born in 1856 Smiljan, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia).
It's also the 152nd anniversary of Marcel Proust's birth. The author of the seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past (or, more literally, In Search of Lost Time) (1913–27), was born on this day in 1871 Auteuil, France,

"The time has come, the walrus said, to speak of many things.

Of shoes and ships, and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings,

and why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings." – Lewis Carroll

Human beings are creatures of belonging, though they may come to that sense of belonging only through long periods of exile and loneliness. We belong to life as much through our sense that it is all impossible as we do through the sense that we will accomplish everything we have set out to do. — David Whyte