Wonderment . . .

Wednesday, March 5, 2025. It's Odin's day …The rollercoaster into Spring continues with strong Northerlies, mainly sunny skies and mid 50's. Winds could gust into the 40 mph range making for a chilly day here in TulseyTown.

March is my birthday month. I love the way Pisces season bleeds into Aries season, always exactly on my birth date, otherworldly and brilliant.

In the mailbox this morning

I find ecstasy in living — the mere sense of living is joy enough. – Emily Dickenson.

A counter programming to Trump's state of the union rant from Joyce Vance in Civil Discourse.

Democracy and liberalism both contain much of value, but they’re not the same thing. They can be conjoined in a successful political order, but their marriage is not inevitable. – Josiah Ober, “Lessons of Demoplis,” in Aeon,

In the teachings on radical self-knowledge, all faults should be dug up, actively revealed, and acknowledged with commitment to work on them. It means to go inward and bring the light of awareness to things we have been hiding with ulterior motives. But do not think that this is a journey filled only with hardships—it is the other way around. There is tremendous joy once we commit to this inner work—so much that we will feel that our whole being cooperates in moving toward freedom. – Anam Thubten, from Into the Haunted Ground: A Guide to Cutting the Root of Suffering, Shambhala, 2022.

Some men, I among them at one time, wonder about love.

Confronted by the fact of our patriarcally received nature

but aware there must be a better way, we wonder.

The poet Robert Bly speaks of a man

who learns to love “the guiding woman.”

His heart is cultivated that way.

– jab adapted from The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, Harper Collins, 1992.