Learning from others . . .

It's a Moon-day … The Turning (Harvest) Moon is waning . . .

It's the 154th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth. Born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the religious and political leader born in1869 western India.

The poet/physician Wallace Stevens was born on this date 144 years ago in 1879 Reading, Pennsylvania.

It's Groucho Marx's birth date. The comedian was born in 1890 New York City.

The house was quiet and the world was calm.

The reader became the book; and summer night

Was like the conscious being of the book.

The house was quiet and the world was calm.

–Wallace Stevens from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. Alfred A. Knopf, 1954, 1982.

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. – Gandhi

Orca's give a TED talk under a full moon

It's Satyr's day . . .

Keillor sticks it to Trump et al and doesn't hold back.

The only divisions between the sacred and the secular are in the minds of those who believe in and reinforce the split . . . The arts help us to hear above the cacophony in the midst of our multitasking. The arts engage a frequency that is perforated with pauses. Artists learned there were things too full for human tongues, too alive for articulation … The need to create impermeable boundaries between the sacred and the secular is a much more recent appropriation of western values – Barbara Holmes

Could an Orca give a TED talk? – For more about Karen Bakker, check out today's Noēma on the interconnected lineage of life from primordial times to the present.

Around midnight last night was the 6th Anniversary of my son Charlie's passing. Appropriately, perhaps, the last Supermoon of the year begins to wane tonight. In many cultures, the moon closest to the Autumn Equinox is known as the Turning Moon as well as the Harvest Moon

And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for? And have you changed your life? – Mary Oliver

the most important thing?

It's Freya's day . . . A Norse goddess whose knowledge and power are almost without equal and just happens to have Odin as her husband.

Dianne Feinstein died overnight in California. She was the oldest member of Congress at 90.

This is not hyperbole: As seen in his recent attacks on Gen. Mark Milley, Trump is escalating his fascist threats of violence as part of his plan to become America's first dictator. – Chauncey DeVega

"Believe the autocrat. He means what he says." – Masha Gessen

Regret is for your own sake, compassion is for the sake of others. – Ven. Robina Courtin

There is no “Enlightenment.” There are only enightenments.

Today is believed to be the birth date of Miguel de Cervantes near 1547 Madrid.

Gene Autry was born on this date in 1907 Tioga, Texas, for all practical purposes on the border of Texas and Oklahoma. As a pre-teen, I was gobsmacked when I won a drawing to shake hands with him backstage. I don't remember the event, but I do recall that he walked by leaving me to shake hands with Pat Butramm who played sidekick Smiley Burnett.

What's the opposite of “woke?” Asleep? Au contraire: Awake is our gift both ourselves and the world.