Days are for waking up . . .

It’s Odin’s day, and here in TulseyTown the weather has gifted us with mild mornings for the trip to the mailbox . . .

Today and last Sunday marked the infamous atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan in 1945. 120,000 people were instantly killed in the two bombings and tens of thousands, with thousands more continuing today, suffered deaths from the radiation.

I want to become acutely aware of all I have taken for granted. – Sylvia Plath

We can take The Way of the Watercourse for granted, but that will not stop its flow.

Today is the 124th anniversary of P.L. (Pamela Lyndon) Travers' birth.The creator of Mary Poppins was born Helen Lyndon Goff, in 1899 Mayborough, Queensland, Australia.

It is the birth date of Izaak Walton in 1593, born in Stafford, England. While a career as a biographer, Walton is best known as the author of a book about fishing. The Compleat Angler (1653) has been in print for more than 350 years.

Also born on this date: English poet Philip Larkin, born in 1922 Coventry, England.

Jerry Garcia, the leader of the Grateful Dead, died of a heart attack on this date at age 53.

And, Henry David Thoreau's masterwork Walden was published today in 1854.

from “Days”

What are days for?

. . . Ah, solving that question

Brings the priest and the doctor

In their long coats

Running over the fields.

– Philip Larkin, from “Whitsun Weddings”. Collected Poems. Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001.

So, “woke” is somehow “bad.” Hmm...what's the alternative? “Asleep?” Go see “Barbie.”