Are we there yet?
It’s Tew’s day . . . Northerlies are cooling otherwise sunny skies today across Oklieland …where voters are turning out for primaries . . .
We are already on our onward way – David Whyte
Lady Gregory was born on this day in 1852 Roxborough, County Tipperary, Ireland. She helped lead the Irish Literary Revival in the early 20th century and she co-founded, along with Yeats, the Abbey Theatre.
Today in 1975 the Homebrew Computer Club first met in a garage near Menlo Park in the Silicon Valley.
[The] most beautiful, rewarding, and transformative experiences in life transcend the categories our culture has created to contain the chaos of consciousness – Maria Popova, in The Marginalian online, 02/28/2004/
Dr. James Turner, Ph.D. re: DOPS Research into Children’s Past Life Memories: John Cleese, actor and comedian, interviews Dr. Tucker, a professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia. They discuss the research done by the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) into the cases of children who report memories of previous lives. They also talk about some of the evidence and implications of this phenomenon. Original post May 19, 2019, recently reposted.
Anyone who says he knows what God is or isn't, doesn't. – Rob Brezsney
Her Song To Rouse Him From Sleep
The stag to the east is not asleep, he does not stop from bellowing . . .
The cuckoo is not asleep, the thrush is not asleep, the tops of the
trees are a noisy place; the duck is not asleep, she is made ready
for good swimming; the bog-lark is not asleep tonight
on the high stormy bogs; the sound of her clear voice is sweet;
she is not sleeping between the streams.
– Lady Gregory
This is not our first rodeo. Nor, likley for most of us, our last.
Celebrating the “givens.”
It's the Moon's day … Strong southerlies continue to push Spring into Okieland . . .
Dates
In 1789 A landmark document of the Western world, the U.S. Constitution went into effect as the governing law of the United States.
And in 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd U.S. president.
Jus' Sayin'
The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it. – Billy Graham, in an interview in Parade Magazine, 1981. Franklin Graham has betrayed his father's legacy.
The Trumpocene is a time of collective confusion, disorientation, and shared pathology. . .He is now declaring himself as “Christian” and comparing himself with Jesus. Christians are aware of Biblical cautions to beware of false prophets, but political zealots could care less. — Chauncy Devega writing in Salon online 03/02/2024.
Glimpse into post-entertainment society . . .
Then, celebrate the “givens” of the day. – Richard Rohr
Suchness
Mama don't let your babies grow up / to be cowboys. Make 'em be doctors / and lawyers and such – Willie Nelson
Well, I've been one of them “suches.” / Read way too much 'til I realized /
Willie, the Boss, Bob Marley, and Dylan / were among the great philosophers. /
Now, wearing jeans, / teaching without a tie, / with the whispers of Calliope /
I transcribed this poem for Hephaestus.
— jab
The Moon's Soul . . .
It's Sol's day and strong Southerlies are rattling the mailboxes along The Way while the moon is waning toward new next week . . .
We can’t access our full intelligence and wisdom without some real connection to [the soul of] nature. – Fr. Richard Rohr
Poet James Merrill was born on this date. The Pulitzer Prize laureate was born in 1926 New York City.
Ira Glass turns 65 today. The host of This American Life was on this day in 1959 Baltimore, Maryland.
Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata was published on this date in 1802 Imagine hearing this for the first time in a concert hall in 1801, and never being able to hear it again played the same way. Maybe not even being able to hear it again.
When we look into the eyes of a cat, or even a chicken, and when they return the gaze, are we recognizing unspoken, forgotten, shared genetic memories? – David Waltner-Toews writing in Aeon online 3.2.24
Jus' Sayin'
We are tribal in our DNA. Our language, consciousness and socialization are manifestations of training in small groups. In a world – let alone a universe – so large as to be beyond anything but our feeble imagination, our global crises are frightening and add to an already overloaded state of anxiety. The progressive solutions require accepting our fear in order to overcome our tribal desires to withdraw, shut down, or even strike out against anything that looks like an “other” – insisting on our isolating individual separatism ranging from our relationships to public policy.
We fear our universal interconnectedness – from the mycileal to the womb of birthing stars – when unity is the only reality. “The Way” yields to us only as we become able to say “Yes.” The butterfly's wings affect the weather. So, what happens when we kill all the butterflies?
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace. – Diane Ackerman For more about Ms. Ackerman
The old moon lying in the young moon's arms
lives in the shadow of her crescent light / and yet
he rounds her out, shields her from harm /
as she ripens in the star-encrusted night.
Almost a Tao sign, they embrace with limbs /
luminous and stark, wedded by less but embraced
by design / The arch their symbol /
a strength mde from two weakneses.
– Diane Ackerman, from “Natural Wonders”, in Poetry, 1994.