Peaceful insurrection . . .

Sunday, April 27, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . taking a rest behind clouds most of the day over TulseyTown. Easy Southerlies are in the forecasts with low 80's. The Moon is New.

A light has gone out in our troubled world. Nathan Gardels, Noēma, 4.26.25.

What if our celebration of Easter was so radical in its meaning that it tempted tyrants and dictators everywhere to make it illegal, because it represents the ultimate scandal: an annual call for creative and peaceful insurrection against all status quos based on fear, hostility, exclusion, and violence? – Brian McLaren, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 4.25.25

Speaking of peaceful insurrections against the status quo: Today is the birth date of Mary Wollstonecraft. The author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was born in 1759 London, England.

[A]n executive order is simply a directive to federal employees. It cannot override the Constitution. Trump’s attack on the idea of birthright citizenship as a “historical myth” is a perversion of our history. – Heather Cox Richardson, Letters From An American, 4.26.25

Dictators are adept at eroding democracy into a shell of itself, little more than an empty facade. Interfering with the judiciary is one of the keys to getting there. – Joyce Vance, in today's Civil Discourse.

The Cimarron

– Even silence can feel, to the world, like happiness – Mary Oliver

The mountains, where I've been the past several weeks,

seem profoundly happy in their silent

stillness.

Their shared silence and the sound of this pen

on the page brings a peace not unlike that of

snow.

Falling snow-flakes are the silent words of

the Cimarron.

– james