Over the moon . . .

It's Thor's day . . . here in Okieland, echoes of Summer continue to reverberate ‘til the end of the week.

There is one memory deep inside you. The deep shadow that forever takes you in its arms. – David Whyte

A personal report from Ashville, North Carolina after Hurricane Helene, by Hanna Cole (Sunlight Tax).

Yesterday, the long shore of the Watercourse saw a gathering not seen for fifty years.

Today is the anniversary of the 1895 publication of Stephen Crane's novel The Red Badge of Courage

A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.” – Stephen Crane. This poem is in the public domain.

It's the birthday of novelist Thomas Wolfe, born in 1900 Asheville, North Carolina

And it's the 99th anniversary of Gore Vidal's birth. The prolific novelist/essayist was on this day in 1925 West Point, New York. His grandfather, T.P. Gore was the U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, once upon a long time ago.

On this date in 1849, Edgar Allen Poe was found unconscious outside a pub in Baltimore. He died in a hospital four days later.

'Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,'
The shade replied,—
'If you seek for Eldorado!'

– Edgar Allen Poe, “Eldorado,” first published in the April 21, 1849, issue of the Boston-based The Flag of Our Union.