Cool Cat's have three names...
It's Thor's day . . . golden Fall is settling in over TulseyTown this morning . . .
We turn not older with years, but newer every day. – Emily Dickenson
I think you get it: You don’t have to enter a monastery to be a mystic. You don’t have to renounce chocolate or forsake pop culture...This is what it means to be a mystic. To show up for what is, to be present to all that is, to take refuge in the boundless intimacy of exactly what is. – Mirabai Starr, writing about mysticism in CAC's Meditations, 9.25.24.
Remembrances
Today in 1957 the musical West Side Story opened on Broadway.
Composer George Gershwin , was born on this date in 1898 Brooklyn, New York.
And, poet T.S. Eliot was born in 1888 St. Louis, Missouri.
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn’t just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. – T.S. Eliot, “The Naming of Cats,” From Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1939.