Searching for/with a lost mind . . .

Tuesday, June 10, 2025. It's Odin's day. . . and the “Strawberry Moon” became full around 3 a.m. this morning. The “Strawberry Moon” name has been used by Native American Algonquian tribes that live in the northeastern United States as well as the Ojibwe, Dakota, and Lakota peoples to mark the ripening of strawberries that are ready to be gathered. Alternative European names for this Moon include the Honey Moon. June was traditionally named after the Roman goddess of marriage, Juno. Following marriage comes the “honeymoon,” which may be tied to this alternative Moon name. – from The Farmer's Almanac.

Heather Cox Richardson's Letters From An American put into context Trump's attempt to create a police state.

The week ahead. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.

The man who launched an attempted coup on the United States in 2020 and instigated an insurrection at the Capitol that resulted in five deaths now claims that people in Los Angeles are launching an insurrection. They’re not. – Robert Reich

Confronting reality: Today is Gustave Courbet's birthday. The French painter and leader of the Realist movement was born in 1819, Ornans, France.

Lost Mind

– after Joni Mitchel

Clouds come and go but are still clouds

just as do illusions. If fortune allows

love comes and as illusions, go,

but is still love.

Confounded pride

insists illusions real,

silencing our out loud

embrace of the one moment

when we could have known

what it meant to be alive.

– jab