Waiting for the moon . . .
Monday, April 13, 2026. It's the Moon's day … Moderate to strong Southerlies are in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown. An afternoon in the 80's with mixed clouds and sun.
“A finger points to the moon. What are you looking at?”
No teacher or text can give you enlightenment; awakening can only be experienced directly. Words are a raft you can use to get to the other shore, but then let them go. Ultimately, there’s no way to explain direct experience.
The creative path can feel remarkably distant and elusive: to create is to betray your home and set off into a distant unknown place. That's why, sometimes, we feel stuck and alienated from the very work we are trying to embrace. – David Whyte, “The Creative Path.” This is an invitation to a three-Sundays workshop in May with Whyte and Rick Rubin. Fee based, but Whyte's invite provides real insight which is why I elected to post it.
The week ahead. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse
Over the weekend, Trump bashed Pope Leo and then took credit for the Pontiff's selection. The Pope, showing his Chicago inheritance did not back down.
Yesterday in 1861, at 4:30 a.m. Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter and the American Civil War began. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.
How did we get here, and what can we do about it? It’s time to eschew the myths that contributed to the reelection of the most dangerous person ever to occupy the White House. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought.
Today is the birthdate of Thomas Jefferson. He was born in 1743, Shadwell, Virginia.
The Irish playwright, author, critic and Nobel Prize laureate Samuel Beckett was born today in 1906 Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland. He is best remembered for his play Waiting for Godot. Yers trooley had the good fortune to have acted and directed in Godot several times over the years.
Eudora Welty was born on this day in 1909 Jackson, Mississippi. Novelist, short story writer, Pulitzer Prize and Presidential Medal of Freedom laureate.
And, it's the birthdate of the British/American author and social critic Christopher Hitchens, born in 1949 Portsmouth, England.
The wildness of mind that we experience when we sit quietly, noticing our body and breathing for five minutes, is the result of everything we’ve been doing before those five minutes. That wildness is a habit. Regularly taking five can go a long way toward an equinamity – a higher quality habit.
Finding a place to stand. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, at The Center for Action and Contemplation. 4.12.26.