Butterfly synchronicity . . .

It's Tiw's day . . . A cloudy, Fall-ish preview underway here in TulseyTown . . .

We [humans] are multi-species choruses disguised as single species, single selves. Instead of the single body, is the journey the Self that holds many versions of a self, different species, phenological expression across generations? Good questions from Sophie Strand.

An update on Trump's plans:

Trump's plan in sharp focus by Heather Cox Richardson in Letters from An American.

Trump's plan continues with its delay, delay, delay tactics with Judge Chutkan. Joyce Vance abbreviates the latest on Civil Discourse.

While all that unfolds, Tim Walz is driving MAGA men nuts — he's living proof that these are the last days of the patriarchy and that their tormented masculinity is yesterday's news.

By the time in the West when the Hellenic world decided to re-write the history of the Stone Age, the Patriarchy was well established from its evolutonary roots in agriculture. So we're looking at a minimum of some 5,000 years (some say 12,000 if you go to Mesopotomia) of presumptive male dominance. Regardless of its anthropological history, patriarchy has never brought all that much good to society. For a bio-anthropo-historio-poetic challenging but worthy take on all this, explore The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Masculine by Sophie Strand. Be aware this is not a text for a speed reader. Ms. Strand demands a deliberate and careful read of the 192 pages, 34 of which are notes which you'll constantly be returning to as you read. The Kindle version, while available, is a difficult format for the demanding text. Besides that, you’ll likely be marking and making marginal notes.

From a post one week ago:

I dreamed I was a butterfly.

Now I do not know if I am a human

who dreamt of being a butterfly,

or a butterfly

dreaming I am a human. ― The Zhuangzi