Remember to keep the Bach door open …

Monday, March 31, 2025. It's the Moon's day . . . Forecasts indicate moderate Northeasterlies for TulseyTown today, with mixed clouds and sun after a chilly, cloudy morning, and low 60's. Lots of weather this week. Rains and storms are on the calendar's week ahead.

The light we seek is already in us. There is no need to “find” it. We need to shine it on our world. Thereby is it reflected back to us. The sounds we hear are the echoes of our own voice.

In the mailbox this morning:

Johann Sebastian Bach was born on this date in 1685. Generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time, he was born in Eisenach, Thuringia, Ernestine Saxon Duchies [Germany].

Trump and his team are harboring a “delusional obsession” that we can get along without regulation and leave matters to the invisible hand – former Governor Jerry Brown cited by Nathan Gardels in Noema Magazine online 3.29.25.

Evil finds its almost perfect camouflage in the silent agreements of the group when it appears personally advantageous. Such is no less true for organized religions than for governments and corporations. And we are fully complicit in it. Yet, there are islands of sanity. – Fr. Richard Rohr, in Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.

Today is the birth date of René Descartes. Often called the father of contemporary philosophy, he was born in 1596, La Haye, Touraine, France.

We rely on gifts from the universe to live (air, water, food). We live together with all things. Why is it necessary to think we’re superior? This is like our stomach thinking it’s more valuable than other parts of our bodies. – Kodo Sawaki Roshi, Education and Work, Shambhala, 2.18.25