Hard choices on the softest of days . . .

It's the Moon's day . . . storm chances on the increase today and tonight here in TulsyTown . . .

“You’ll stop worrying what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.” – David Foster Wallace

Continuing toward Earth Day . . .

How does a body understand itself in environments that leak and twitch and spasm in reaction to extractive capitalism and pollution? Research into embodied cognition and ecology, microbiology and somatics offers a glimmer of something leakier than the modern idea of a self...we are more patterns than we are static matter. Our cells reshuffle every seven years...Our carbon-bound, cellular being has a root system that stretches [from mycelia] all the way to the sun. – Sophie Strand, The Body is an Ecotone.

There is … a singular disorientation to those moments when [words] fail us — when these prefabricated containers of language turn out too small to contain emotions at once overwhelmingly expansive and acutely specific. – Maria Popova referencing John Koenig's The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, in her latest edition of The Marginalian, 14 April 2024.

How does it feel to be free? Freud was the supreme cynic of the psyche. – Maria Popova, The Marginalian, 4.14.24

Softest of Mornings

What will you do today, I wonder,

… no doubt clocks are ticking loudly

all over the world.

… How shall I move away from the flowers?

How shall I go on, with my introspective

and ambitious life?

– Mary Oliver, Long Life, ‎Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2005.