In the clouds, a leaf . . .

It's the Moon's day . . . while it's silver sliver-like presence waxes toward full, ten days away, we won't see it today in TulseyTown as the Spring storms continue to cloud the skies . . .

The mailbox this morning held a welcome surprise I am glad to share with you:

“I got saved by the beauty of the world.” – Mary Oliver in an interview with Krista Tippett's On Being. Very much worth the time.

FYI: Stevie Wonder turns 74 today. The twenty-five-times Grammy Award recipient for his song writing and vocal recording was born on this day in 1950, Saginaw, Michigan. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he's also the recipient of the Gershwin Award, a Kennedy Center honoree, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and an Academy Award among many.

Your brain on art – Ted Gioia

From “Flare”

Nothing lasts.

There is a graveyard where everything I talk about is.

I stood there once, one the green grass, scattering flowers.

… The poem is not the world. It isn't even

the first page of the world.

The poem wants to be a flower.

Like a flower, it knows that much.

It wants to open itself so that you might step

inside like the door of a little temple

and be cooled and refreshed

and less yourself

than part of everything.

– Mary Oliver, in The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem, Da Capo Press, 2000.