Dragon Princess …

It's Odin's day . . . TulseyTown has joined the seasonal rollercoaster into Winter: after and before the cold, a visit to warmish days for at least the next ten days at least.

The social psychologist and theorist Albert Bandura was born on this day in 1925, Mundare, Alberta, Canada

It's the birth date of Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. One of the pioneers of abstract modern art, he was born in 1866, Moscow.

And, today is the 149th birth anniversary of Rainer Maria Rilke. He was born in 1875 Prague.

“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you...For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.” – Rilke, Duino Elegies, WW. Norton, 2021, First published January 1, 1922.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love...I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. ― Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, Dover Publications, 2002.