Growing chilis in an apple orchard . . .

In the Moon day mailbox this morning . . .

Today in 1997 J.K. Rowling's first book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, was published in Britain.

Another children's book author, Walter Farley, was born on this day in 1916 Syracuse, New York. Farley wrote The Black Stallion series.

And, Pearl Buck was born on this date in 1892 Hillsboro, West Virginia. A Nobel Prize winner, she was a prolific writer, including the novel The Good Earth.

Báyò's blog from two weeks ago seems to have anticipated last week's wind storm here in TulseyTown . . .

To ‘slow down’ … seems like the wrong thing to do when there’s fire on the mountain. But here’s the point: in ‘hurrying up’ all the time, we often lose sight of the abundance of resources that might help us meet today’s most challenging crises. We rush through the same patterns we are used to. Of course, there isn’t a single way to respond to a crisis; there is no universally correct way. However the call to slow down works to bring us face to face with the invisible, the hidden, the unremarked, the yet-to-be-resolved.... It is about staying in the places that are haunted. – Báyò Akómoláfé.

There’s no such thing as “drive-by loving.” In order to love, you have to slow down. – Barbara Holmes

All results come from causes that have the ability to create them. If we plant apple seeds, an apple tree will grow, not chili. If chili seeds are planted, chili will grow, not apples. – Ven. Thubten Chodron