Nevermind Nirvana

It's Tiw's Day . . . a touch of fog, a heavy dew, and the gentlest of breezes greeted TulseyTown this morning . . .

We are not “things” in a field. We are the field. – Báyò Akómoláfé.

Election season is officially under way. Joyce Vance updated us on voting and the week ahead in the courts on her blog Civil Discorse.

The truth is simple: the money exists, but the political will does not. Not yet, anyway.

Birthdays, mainly:

“Blind" Lemon Jefferson, was born on a farm in Couchman, Texas, in about 1893, we think.

Three years later, jazz age author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 St. Paul, Minnesota.

Muppet puppet master Jim Henson was born on this day in 1936, Greenville, Mississippi.

And, Nirvana released its breakthrough album Nevermind today in 1991.

Nirvāṇa is a term that refers to a state of profound peace of mind. Although the term occurs in the literatures of a number of ancient Indian traditions, the concept is most commonly associated with Buddhism. Generally, Nirvāṇa manifests with the final removal of the disturbing mental elements which obstruct a peaceful and clear state of mind, together with a state of awakening from the mental sleep which they induce. Only when one “lets go” of the desire to possess (anything) can Nirvāṇa be achieved.

Neap Tide

The hurdy-gurdy at Seaside / throws images at the canvas / of a once ancient nemesis.

The sea roils and rolls / from an infinite sometime / in a nowhere but now here /

moment. / In time / to ebb / and start again. /

To start again / in time / to ebb.

– jab