Celebrate the snowflake. . .
It’s Frigg’s (Freya’s) day. Settling in for a brief visit with friends in Durango, Colorado for a few days.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. — George Bernard Shaw.
Birthdays
Betty White was born Jtoday in 1922 Oak. Park, Illinois;
The Academy Award laureate actor with an unmistakable and iconic voice, James Earl Jones was born in 1931, Arkabutla, Mississippi.
Muhammad Ali was born in 1942 Louisville, Kentucky
One of the principle “Founding Fathers” of the U.S. and the
Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin was born today in 1706, Boston, Massachusetts.
Yesterday was the birth date of writer Susan Sontag. The critical essayist, cultural analyst, novelist and filmmaker was born on this day in 1933 New York City.
And it was the birthday of poet and memoirist Mary Karr, born yesterday in 1955 Groves, Texas.
There is no essential separateness between you and me, you and other people, you and other species, or you and the trees. You can look at anyone or anything and say: You are a part of me I do not yet know. — Valarie Kaur, Sage Warrior: Wake to Oneness, Practice Pleasure, Choose Courage, Become Victory (One World, 2024) In Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.
(…) conducting research for one’s doctoral degree, you are likely warned against stepping on a dislodged eyelash: "Lest you turn mad in a second!" I have long been hosted by the possibility that what's obvious obscures what the world is doing, and that clarity is a political project of training the senses into a particular notion of the real - very often the state-sponsored one. The miraculous often thrives beneath the rags of pathology.— Bayo Akomolafe.
(…) Stop calling yourself 'flaky', 'fickle' or 'a jack of all trades' and instead started seeing your creativity as a beautiful, evolving lacework of ideas, mediums and passions. — Eleanor Chaney
The thought Creation holds of you is perfectly unchanged by your forgetting.