Surprise! No suprise . . .

In Tew's Day's mailbox . . .

More Yang bias. . . no surprise. . . in the historical record.

Today is the 205th anniversary of Maria Mitchell's birth. The first acknowledged female astronomer was born on the island of 1818 Nantucket in Massachusetts. See also, Maria Popova's feature in The Marginalian

Before examining the complicated flotsam and jetsam notes left in the eddies:

Best to learn how to read the love letters

send by the wind and rain

the snow and moon – Zen master Ekkyu

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us – Franz Kazfka, Letter to Oskar Pollak (27 January 1904)

Speaking of frozen seas: Herman Melville was born on this day in 1819 in New York City.

[We are] to listen to the cloud floating by and the wind blowing by.

Everything is alive and has its own consciousness. – Lakota elder Tiokasin Ghosthorse