Robbing Keat’s mother . . .

It's the Moon's day … turning full this weekend.

Our full presence is perhaps the best offering we can make to our world. – Joanna Macy

The Autumn Equinox was Saturday. “Equinox,” Latin for “equal night,” is when days start to become shorter and nights lengthen until they roughly cover the same amount of time. From an astronomical perspective, it’s an event that signifies that the sun has crossed the equator going north to south. During this transition, the Harvest Moon also occurs. In many cultures, the moon closest to the Autumn Equinox is also known as the Turning Moon and/or the Leaf Moon, which will occur this coming Saturday.

Today is Barbara Walters’ birthday. The televsion news reporter/interviewer was born in1929 Boston, Massachusetts

It's the126th anniversary of William Faulkner's birth in 1897 New Albany, Mississippi. He spent most of his life in Oxford where he wrote the novels that won him the 1949 Nobel Prize.

Yesterday, Hollywood studio and streaming executives reached a tentative deal with the Writers Guild subject to drafting final contract language.

For all the good AI can and will bring, it will also leave devastation in its wake, and writers will drown in the undertow. – Randall Horton

Did John Keats rob his mother? “If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ is worth any number of old ladies.” – Willian Faulkner

Being prefaces doing …

It's Sol's day and easy Northerlies have replaced the thunderstorms that overnight visited much of Okieland …

You don’t become religious, don’t believe in any god.

You don’t have an enlightenment.

It’s something that happens to you

in the middle of a mindful moment.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on this date in 1896 St. Paul, Minnesota.

Today is the 130th anniversary of the birth of “Blind” Lemon Jefferson. Considered among the originators of “the blues, he was born on a farm in Coutchman, Texas, in about 1893.

And, in 1996, the United States, represented by President Clinton, and the world’s other major nuclear powers, including Russia, China, and Great Britain, signed a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons. The U.S. has yet to formally sign it.

Other events of note in the historical record of this date . . .

In 2015, according to Saudi officials, 769 people died in a stampede during the hajj to Mecca; however, other estimates claim that more than 2,400 were killed, making it one of the deadliest accidents in the pilgrimage's history.

In 1957 federal troops were dispatched to Little Rock, Arkansas, to maintain order and enforce the right of black students to attend the local public high school.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. It has a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. – Mark Twain

All I have done before the age of 70 is not worth bothering with. At 75, I’ll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish, and insects. When I am 80, you will see real progress. – Hokusai

You are the house in which you live . . .

It is Satyr's day and here in TulseyTown we are awaiting strong thunderstorms late this afternoon and into tomorrow morning.

Nearly 9,000 crossed the Rio Grande yesterday. surrendering to U.S. Border agents hoping for asylum.

“The central problem for humanity in the 21st century is how we can nurture sufficient legitimate political power and wisdom, adequate technical mastery and robust norms to constrain technologies to ensure they continue to do more good than harm.” – Mustafa Suleyman

The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense. – Tom Clancy

An icon passing as Netflix tosses the dvds . . .

Today is the 68th birthday of Bruce Springsteen in 1949, Freehold, New Jersey. “The Boss” and the E-Street Band has cancelled the present tour until this time next year (projected) while Mr. Springsteen is being treated for a serious ulcer disease.

Its the birth date of John Coltrane. The jazz musician was born in 1926 Hamlet, North Carolina.

And, It's also the birth date of Ray Charles. The “Father of Soul” was born in 1930 Albany, Georgia.

from ALL THE TRUE VOWS

By the lake in the wood

in the shadows

you can

whisper that truth

to the quiet reflection

you see in the water.

Whatever you hear from

the water, remember,

it wants you to carry

the sound of its truth on your lips. – David Whyte, from The House of Belonging, Many Rivers Press, 1997

You know what they say: You can lead a herring to water, but you have to walk really fast or he’ll die.

– Rose (Betty White) in Golden Girls.