Fat Poets Society…

It's the Moon's Day … hiding behind cloud cover over TulseyTown. Easy Southerlies forecasted to bring increasing rain chances throughout the day and guaranteed tonight by the weatherfeather .

The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little. – Jon Kabat-Zinn.

Joyce Vance offers cookies for The Week Ahead, in Civil Discourse.

Norman Maclean was born on this date in 1902 Clarinda, Iowa. He authored the exquisite novel A River Runs Through It.

Today is the birthday of one of the great champions of poetry, Harriet Monroe. She was the founder of Poetry magazine (still in publication), and was born in 1860 Chicago.

Two of my top fave (not five) poets share birthdays today.

Dame, professor and poet laureate of Great Britain, Carol Ann Duffy was born in 1955 Glasgow, Scotland. She is the first female poet laureate, the first Scottish-born poet and the first openly lesbian poet to hold Britain's Poet Laureate position in 300 years.

Poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement, Robert Bly was born in 1926 Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota.

Only Bly could write a poem about “The fat old couple whirling around.” Hear him as you read it to know him.

The drum says that the night we die will be a long night.

...It’s all right if Bach keeps reaching for the same note.

...Even if you are a puritan it would be all right

If you join the lovers in their ruined house tonight.

It’s good if you become a soul and then disappear.

– Robert Bly, “The fat old couple whirling around,” from My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy, HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 2005.