O Canada Day!

...was yesterday: The mailbox reminder was late...no doubt celebrations are continuing from Nova Scotia to British Columbia.

Also in the mailbox , this note: Silence is not just that which is around words and underneath images and events. It has a life of its own. It is a being in itself... that foundational quality which precedes all other attributes. Silence is at the very foundation of all reality—naked being, we might say. Pure being is that out of which all else comes and to which all things return...pure action always proceeds from a contemplative silence. – Richard Rohr

What we are doing may be just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. – Mother Teresa

It is always the poet’s task to defend the relevance of radiance, whatever its shape and subject – Maria Popova

FYI: the center of the North American continent is in North Dakota.