"To see a world in a grain of sand"

In Thor's mailbox . . .

Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting.

The movie Gone With the Wind opened in Atlanta on this date in 1939. The African-American performers were prevented by Georgia's Jim Crow laws from sitting next to their white co-stars who attended the premiere.

Our tragic history demonstrates that one group cannot be trusted to portion out worthiness and dignity to another. Our criteria tend to be self-referential and thus highly prejudiced, and the powerless and disadvantaged always lose out. For the planet and for all living beings to move forward, we can rely on nothing less than an inherent original goodness and a universally shared dignity. – Richard Rohr

We are more than our mistakes, conflicts, and the things that have been done to us. We are also our freedom, our wisdom, and the full range of our lived experience. . . . – Mindy Newman and Kaia Fischer

The world is our classroom. We are students here. No lesson ends until we learn what we came to learn in each moment of our journey. Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. – Pema Chödrön

Poets bid fruitlessly to solve an insoluble problem. The menu is not the food. The map, irrespective of the exquisite craftmanship of the cartologist, is not the territory. Love cannot be explained. It must be felt. – Jeff Krasno

Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken? Each of us does.

Without that majorly disruptive experience we cannot know

what our fellow sentient beings are going through every day.

Everything looks smaller when you’re standing under the sky.