A poet laureate of physics
In the mail box on this day named after Odin . . .
. . . in 1985, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a Poet Laureate for the United States. The first laureate, named in 1986, was Robert Penn Warren. The current Poet Laureate is Ada Limón.
It's a Wonderful Life, the Academy Award film directed by Frank Capra premiered in U.S. theatres on this day in 1946.
David Bohm was born on this day in 1917 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The American-born British theoretical physicist developed a causal, nonlocal interpretation of quantum mechanics.
(from) A New National Anthem
The truth is, I’ve never cared for the National
Anthem...just a call to the field,
something to get through before
the pummeling of youth.
And what of the stanzas we never sing …
Perhaps,
the truth is, every song of this country
has an unsung third stanza, something brutal
snaking underneath us as we blindly sing
the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands
hoping our team wins...
– Ada Limón, A New National Anthem, BuzzFeed, 2010.
A Sparrow sings in silence
It's Tew's day . . .
For many big life choices, we only learn what we need to know after we’ve done it, and we change ourselves in the process of doing it – L.A. Paul in Marie Popova's 12.17.23 Marginalian.
The nativity scene, like much of Western theology, is far removed from the very bloody and very raw and very human process of birth. – Kat Armas writing in Meditations.
Share the flower …. Silence does not mean to push away or avoid all noise; doing that is resisting the present moment and the joy and liberation it holds. – Rebecca Li
Tired of the pressures to be reasonable? Let's be absurd . . .
Somewhere on my — and I know I cannot be alone in this — top ten illimitable and beyond reason gifts received from Creation to date is the fact that today is the 108th birth anniversary of Ĕdith Piaf. The “Little Sparrow” songstresst was born on this date in 1915, Paris.
Non, je ne regrette rien
No, I regret nothing
Not the good things they did to me
Nor the bad -- may as well be the same to me!
No, nothing at all,
No, I regret nothing
Because my life, because my joys
Today, I begin with you.
Cracking nuts with a ruler …
While Northerlies are putting a chill in the air, I'm celebrating the Moon each day of the coming week as it waxes toward full …
The last retrograde of the year continues to Jan. 1, 2024. To help with some of the shifting going on under the Mercurial umbrella:
You have to leave the city of your comfort to go into the wilderness of your intuition. – Alan Alda
Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker was first presented on this date at theMariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Check out this link to The Nutcracker by the New York Ballet Theatre Company (scroll down to the “History”)
Several creative's birthdays today: British guitarist Keith Richards is 80 today and his 40th wedding anniversary; Brad Pitt is 60; Steven Spielberg is 77; and it's the 144th anniversary of Paul Klee's birth. Klee was of the 20th Century's great avant-garde artists.
We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Begin now doing what you want to do. – Marie Beynon Ray