Only kindness makes any sense . . .

Wednesday, March 12, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . A clear, sunny, mild, calm sunrise this morning in TulseyTown. Forecasts indicate clouds rolling in this afternoon with 80º and moderate Southerlies, but no rain.

Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water. – Dōgen

Der Trumpenfurher has begun to seize people who have not been charged with any crime. This is the classic lament of Pastor Martin Niemöller over what happened in Nazi Germany. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.

CARE doesn’t care that often. – David Whyte

Today is the birthdate of Jack Kerouac. The author of “On the Road” was born in 1922 Lowell, Massachusetts.

Playwright Edward Albee was born in 1928 Washington, D.C.

Naomi Shihab Nye turns 72 today. The poet and fiction author was born in 1952 St. Louis, Missouri.

Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.

[…]

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

[…]

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore...

– Naomi Shihab Nye, “Kindness,” Words Under the Words: Selected Poems. The Eighth Mountain Press, 1995.