The rain in Spain
In the mailbox on this day named after Freya . . .
It's not always the most powerful who write history – it's the one's who survive.
What to do with the billions of pounds of biomass presently and increasing in our landfill? Pyrolize it into biochar and then add it to concrete to increase its strength by 30% while solving a major problem.
A moratorium on deep-sea mining within its member countries’ territorial water has been declared by The Melanesian Spearhead Group put in place by leaders from Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and an alliance of pro-independence political parties from the French territory of New Caledonia.
Can the Titanic resist the artifact takers? Jim Cameron sees a third way . . .
Turns out: The aspartame ingredient in NutraSweet and Equal are neither and both have now been demonstrated to contribute to impaired memory and learning deficits. Researchers at Florida State University (FSU) College of Medicine have given us data joining the long list of reasons why confronting our sugar addictions is a good idea. . .as well as close reading of ingredients in anything store-bought.
Last but by far not least: A 50 year beloved friend's partner and soul-mate has died after a long illness. I'd give you her email address but for that her mailbox is already filled with support messages from a life-time of friends and lovers from around the world. Blessings my sweet deb and your doug as The Great Mystery continues to reveal itself.
Moments after Freya's mailbox received
the notice here on Watecourse Way
rain drops the size of silver dollars began banging
their Morse-coded messages of Doug's passing
on the awnings outside my window.
– jb
Ten-thousand voices . . .
It's Odin's day . . . and the mailbox has a few leftovers from that past two days. I've been editing and writing some of my own poems, and reading . . . and reading . . .
A poem [any art form expressed] is a discovery. It is not the record of something I already know. Rather, it is the record of finding. The acknowledgment of the full scope of being is why good art thrills. Acknowledging the fullness of things is our human task. – Jane Hirshfield
The poet Donald Hall was born on this date in 1928 Hamden, Connecticut
It's the 139th anniversary of Maxwell Perkins' birth. Born in1884 New York City, Perkins was perhaps the most famous American editor. he discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe among many others.
Headlines are saying that “Congress” is in crisis. But that construction obscures the true story: the Republicans are in crisis, and they are taking the country down with them. – Heather Cox Richardson
My blood is alive with many voices
telling me I am made of longing. – Rilke
from “An hour is not a house”
Some want quiet as others want bread.
Some want sleep.
My eyes went
to the window,
as a cat or dog left alone does. – Jane Hirshfield, Poetry (April 2013)
A thought rises: Shalom!
It's Sol's day . . . The sun bringing reminders to the mailbox …
On this day in 1787 The U.S. Constitution was signed by 39 delegates of the Constitutional Convention.
In 1849 Harriet Tubman escaped on this date from the Southern plantation where she was enslaved and later led other enslaved people to freedom in the North along the route of what became called the Underground Railroad.
This past Friday was the 60th anniversary of the Birmingham, Alabama bombing in 1963 of the16th Street Baptist Church. The KKK initiated bombing killed 4 young girls. The event sparked the civil rights movement, succinctly outlined here by Heath Cox Richardson.
Today is the 140th anniversary of William Carlos Williams' birth. The poet was born in 1883 Rutherford, New Jersey
We are in the middle of the Judaic traditional Days of Awe, that wide gate that opens between the Birthday of the World (Rosh Hashana) and the Day of At-One-Ment (Yom Kippur) .
“There is, in sanest hours, a consciousness, a thought that rises, independent, lifted out from all else, calm, like the stars, shining eternal,” – Walt Whitman