The unbearable lightness of May flowers . . .
Tuesday, April 1, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . and apropo April showers arrive tonight and that's no April Fool. A windy day with Southeasterlies have begun pushing clouds over TulseyTown ahead of a likely stormy night tonight. Winds are forecasted at 20 to 30 mph occasionally gusting over 40 mph. High 74F. Tonight, tornadoes and hail are possible. The weatherfeather indicates rain and storms are likely all the way through the rest of the week and the coming weekend. Find yer bumbershoot and duck jacket.
Reminders from heroes and role models for yers trooley were in the mailbox this morning before the winds picked up:
Today is the birth date of Abraham Maslow. The American psychologist and philosopher was born in 1908, New York City. He is best known for his self-actualization theory of psychology , which argued that the primary goal of psychotherapy should be the integration of the self.
Science fiction and fantasy author Anne McCaffrey was born today in 1926 Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926.
Czech author Milan Kundera was born in 1929 Brno, Czechoslovakia. Best known for his novels, especially The Unbearable Lightness of Being one of my fave books and films.
And, one of the world's foremost composers and pianists, Sergey Rachmaninoff ,was born in 1873, Oneg, near Semyonovo, Russia.
Our psyches have been under continued manipulation by the patriarchal paradigm that we were raised in, clouding an understanding of matters deeper than the duality our brains are addicted to. There is another Way.
Who are you? We are less noun and more verb. I am James, certainly far more than the categories I might come up with as an answer. We are a wave in an ocean of possibility, unfolding in each moment-by-moment instant as it has been, and continues to be. As all are unique, including each flower of May, it is still flower. My Self? You? Love.