Lit by the Sun...

It's truly Sol's day . . . the effects of a major solar flare which began last Thursday, the largest in seven years, are continuing to surround the earth. Some folks in TulseyTown may have had a tiny glimpse of the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) last night. Not to mention odd electronic related effects.

The Way of love can be harrowing. It is not a path of convenience. It requires vigilance and discipline to speak for the voiceless, and courage to accept the consequences of ringing the bells that break the spell of complacency. Yet the fruits of such action are sweet. They are wild fruits, and they yield in abundance—enough to feed a whole kingdom, right here on earth. – Mirabai Starr, Saint Francis of Assisi: Brother of Creation (Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2007, 2013).

The most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. – David Foster Wallace

“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” – Epictetus

Wilding IV

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

…

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

– Mary Oliver, the poem “Wild Geese,” is from Dream Work, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986.