No rust for the wicked . . .

It's Satyr's day, and appropriately . . .

. . . in case you missed it: The Rolling Stones have released their first album of its own songs since 2005. The new album ‘Hackney Diamonds’ received a press conference in London at the Hackney Theatre hosted by Jimmy Fallon. The youtube video is worth a watch as is the first single “Angry” official video.

Speaking of video: On Uncertainty and Possibility—Meeting the Climate Future is a 10-part series of short videos with Christiana Figueres, Rebecca Solnit, and Roshi Joan Halifax.

Solitude

– after Thomas Merton

It may be necessary for some of us to live alone.

Silence is our boon companion

and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world

becomes our love.

Out of the heart of that dark warmth

comes the secret that is heard only in silence,

but is the root of all the secrets

whispered by all the lovers in their beds

all over the world. Well may we be obliged

to preserve this stillness, the silent pure nothingness

arising in each moment-by-moment

at the center of all loves.

That we have chosen this task

may escape us in the doings of our being

amid the contradictory joyous burden

which sustains and drains our earthly life.

— JB