The untethered boat . . .

Okieland's transitional Spring rains and storms continue in the forecasts for today into tomorrow.

Speaking of today, it's Satyr's day … named by the Greeks in an attempt to tame the indigenous spirit of Dionysus.

Clinging to separates, letting go unifies. Human desire to transcend separation is at least 4,000 years old, dating to the Pre-Greek, if not Stone Age, rites of Demeter and Persephone. The rites themselves were never disclosed, but are, perhaps, being discovered in contemporary rituals of non-dual mindfulness. The message, then and now, remains the same: We are spirits in a material world.

Today is the 54th anniversary date of what has come to be known, simply as “Kent State.” On this day in 1970, an anti-Vietnam War demonstration at Kent State University turned deadly when the Ohio National Guard shot four unarmed students and wounded nine others, further turning public opinion against the war. Protests against injustice continue apace.

Culture change taking us at warp-speed into a bumpy future . . .

A future with a re-elected Trump was recently outlined by Heather Cox Richardson.

We are moving at the speed of light into the future while looking in the rear view mirror of a Model T Ford.

Notes of Late Spring

Living in a dark alley behind shambled gates,

my perfect lover stays on only in my dreams.

The screech of magpies in my unused yard

churns up the youthful restlessness I feel.

How can I keep chasing such worldly things

when I know this body

is the same as an untied boat?

– Yu Xuanji, in Yin Mountain, The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women, transl. Peter Levitt & Rebecca Nie, Shambhala Press, 2022.