Re-aiming ourselves . . .

In Sol's day's mailbox after a cooling overnight rain in Okieland . . .

Biden’s resurrection of the liberal consensus of the years from 1933 to 1980 is illustrating that the economic problems in the country were the fault of Republican policies rather than of marginalized people. The extremism of those angry Republican footsoldiers is revealing that they are not the centrist Americans they have claimed to be. . .In the past, a democratic coalition has come together to reject such extremism. If it does so again, the Republican marriage of elites to street fighters will crumble, leaving room for the country to rebuild the relationship between citizens and the government. When a similar realignment happened in the 1930s under Democratic president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Republican Party had little choice but to follow. – Heather Cox Richardson

It takes a lot more patience, compassion, forgiveness, and love than aiming for some illusory perfection that usually cannot see its own faults. The only true perfection available to us is the honest acceptance of our imperfection. – Richard Rohr

The goal is not to fall in love with our sorrow, but to fall so in love with ourselves that we don’t prefer our joy over any other feeling. – Chelsea Harvey Garner

Birthday today: Called “the poet laureate of medicine,” neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks, was born on this day in 1933 London.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. . . .We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. – Oliver Sacks