In the “Pink” . . .

Friday, April 11, 2025. It's Freya's day … and the “Pink Flower Moon” is almost with us, emerging full tomorrow. The weatherfeather indicates easy Northerlies for TulseyTown today, maintaining sunny skies and mid 70's.

In the mailbox this morning:

Answering ‘What is Zen?’ is like answering ‘What is the ocean?’ To understand the ocean you have to get wet, If you stand at the water’s edge and dip your toe in, you won’t know the ocean. – Les Kaye

Lee's surrender to Grant on April 9, 1865 did not end the Civil War. The ideology that created the war now reigns and threatens democracy again. – Heather Cox Richardson, Letters From An American, 4.9.25.

Today is the birthdate of Poet Laureate Mark Strand, born in 1934 Summerside, Canada.

Before the Light

I awoke just before light

reached this corner of the world.

[...]

My hand on the latch

the door swinging

open to something real.

– David Whyte, “Before the Light,” from Everything Is Waiting For You, (revised edition) Many Rivers Press, 2022.