Deconstructing our happiness . . .

It's the Satyr's day in Okieland. The mailbox opened to easy Northerlies and a slow return to the heat.

Grief is not a malady to be cured. It is a sacred reality to be inhabited – Mirabai Starr

Iris Murdoch was born on this date The prolific novelist, poet, playwrite and philosopher was born in 1919 Dublin and raised in London.

“There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they cannot hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.”– Rumi

We try to outrun our grief by staying busy. – Mirabai Starr

It's the 93rd anniversay of French philosopher Jacques Derrida's birth. The the founder of "deconstruction," (which he refused to defined) was born on this day in El Biar, Algeria (1930). Philosophers of every stripe divide into camps to celebrate and/or debate one of his most famous lines: “There is nothing outside the text.”

[We are]co-creators with other intelligences in the reality we are making together. – Nathan Gardels

It is easy to miss our own good fortune; often happiness comes in ways we don’t even notice. – Pema Chödrön