Impossible possibilities . . .

Strong Southerlies and major storm chances have somehow found peace in this Sol's Day morning mailbox . . .

You, I, we – live in possibility, unfolding from potential beyond our imagination.

Today in 2008 Bhutan held elections for the National Assembly, thereby completing the country's transition to a democracy. The country is officially committed to advancing possibilities for the whole world.

For tens of thousands of years, we killed everything bigger than us, and for the last 150 years, we've attempted to kill everything smaller. The paroxysms of anxiety that death elicits have led us to create myth upon myth . . . while the carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, calcium, and phosphorus that somehow miraculously self-assembled into what was your life all goes back into the cycle of nature to feed the emergence of new life. Obviously, there is another way to look at things.

Today is the day Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in 1919 Yonkers, New York.

A few Ferlinghetti pondermoments:

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

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If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

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Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

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I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media? It's not often poets get on mainstream media." I said, "Well I think you're the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you're not the mainstream media. The mainstream media is still the high culture of intellectuals: writers, readers, editors, librarians, professors, artists, art critics, poets, novelists, and people who think. They are the mainstream culture, even though you may be the dominant culture."

I may write my own

eponymous epitaph

instructing the horsemen

to pass.

– Lawrence Ferlinghetti