Love stole my prayer beads . . .

Sunday, August 3, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . Light Southerlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown today, with overcast skies and mid 80's. Yes, it is early August. That said, these recent cool mornings with the noisy geese flying overhead are reminders that there is a Fall to come.

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. – Blaise Pascal , Pensées, the Édition de Port-Royal, 1670

Jedi mind training for the rest of us. – Jeff Krasno, 8.2.25

Birthdays

Rupert Brooke was born on this day in 1887 Warwickshire, England.

"If I should die, think only this of me, / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is forever England." – “The Soldier”– Rupert Brooke

The author of “Exodus,” Leon Uris, was born in 1924 Baltimore, Maryland.

One of America's first embedded reporters, Ernie Pyle, was born in 1900 near Dana, Indiana.

And, Martha Stewart is 84 today. The entrepreneur maven was born in 1941,Jersey City , New Jersey

Our secrets sometimes feel so vile and hopeless that we should all jump off a cliff. – Anne Lamott, “The Thorn Is A Gift,” in Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 8.1.25.

Love, You Stole My Prayer Beads

Love, You stole my prayer beads

and gave me poetry.

[…]

What mountain can withstand your winds?

[…]

We are blind men under a blue sky.

[…]

Saints...move unrecognized through the market.

Unseen, the soul moves through the world.

Praising You, we praise ourselves.

Whoever praises the sun

praises the eyes that see.

Praise is an ocean.

Our words, a boat on the waves.

[…]

Tender waves carry us.

– Rumi, in Water, transl by Haleh Lza Gafori, New York Review Books, 2025