Advantage: Earth

With a full moon pending on this Moon-day, a cloud cover over TulseyTown is holding temps down this morning ahead of a promised return of even more heat this afternoon — and the A/C has quit while the laundry beckons. Magic is called for.

Today is the birthday of J.K. Rowling. The British author of the "Harry Potter" series was born in Yate, near Bristol, in 1965.

"Mother Jones"was born 186 years ago today to a tenant farmer in 1837 Cork, Ireland.

Every moment by moment instant is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them that we call them everyday things. – Hans Christian Andersen

When we defy nature, it rarely works to our advantage: Essay on the evolution of The Watercourse Way (my title for Jeff Krasno’s post today) .

The Way cannot be told,

Lao Tsu told, said only in simile

and only as Yang –

one true metaphor.

The Way, the is-ness, of things

“is” as water flows.

Water flows in one direction:

Its direction.

— jb