The invisible seeks a shape . . .

Sunday, April 6, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . and Old Sol is hiding behind snowy clouds. TulseyTown is cold, damp, even wet for most of the day, clearing up toward its end.

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work...” – Wendell Berry

It has been easy during most of our lifetimes to say you are a progressive or say you are for social justice or say you’re for free speech and not have to pay a price for it … Now we’re at one of those moments where, you know what? It’s not enough just to say you’re for something; you may actually have to do something. – Barack Obama, at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, 4.3.25.

...creativity is the counter-balance response to the vapid un-creating happening around us. These in-between times are not a pause between what was and what is coming...We are not simply waiting in the liminal; we are living inside the paradox itself...The emerging new stories literally and necessarily (and mysteriously) are birthed in the stink of the composting old ones...[emerging] through the edge-walkers, the mystics, the healers, the artists and earth-listeners. Those who are courageous enough to stay awake—to hold the tension, to live fully in the paradox—and not turn away. – Victoria Loorz, Living in a Holy Paradox, online at Wild Spirituality.

What do you learn to ignore and what do you learn to love? What needs to die in your life and what do you need to affirm unreservedly? These two questions are the heart of desert spirituality. A radical foundation. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Mediations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 4.6.25

Everything invisible seeks a shape... I write to understand. Sometimes I glimpse connections only when I read the poem I’ve written. – Judith Tate O'Brien, “Why We Need Bodies,” Rattle, April 5, 2025.