Every which way . . .

It's the Moon's day … as it continues its waxing toward full five days away still rotating around the Earth and lit by the sun. . .

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. – Mary Oliver

Navigating The Way is often one of sinking, then floating. Akin to Fr. Rohr's notion of “falling upward.”

. . . meanstwhilst, the mailbox held reminders that today is President's Day …

… for the right reasons Joyce Vance is celebrating President's Day. And Heather Cox Richardson is remembering Abraham Lincoln.

True birthdays today include Carson McCullers. The short-story writer and novelist (The Heart is a a Lonely Hunter) was born in 1917 Columbus, Georgia.

Amy Tan is 72 today. The novelist (The Joy Luck Club) was born in 1952 Oakland, California.

Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison was born yesterday in 1931 Lorain, Ohio.

And, the astronomer Copernicus was born on this date in 1473 Toruń, Poland. His theory of a sun centered galaxy with the earth no longer the center of the universe got Galileo in deep trouble with the Catholic Church which today celebrates space exploration.

We didn't start this fire. My Houston TX friend Allyson sent me this one as an artist's gift from her to me to you (art: any expression transcending the time in which it was manifested) …

. . . from “As If to Demonstrate an Eclipse”

[S]inging the room full of shadows,
as sun and earth and moon
circle one another in their impeccable orbits
. . . I get more and more cockeyed with gratitude.

– Billy Collins, “As If to Demonstrate an Eclipse” in Nine Horses, Random House, 2003