Equal Time . . .
It's Tew's day . . . Southerlies have returned to Okieland TulsyTown chasing away the last frozen morning for the next six months as the Equinox approaches the Equator giving equal time to the Sun, allowing more light into the mailbox . . .
I'm celebrating the 77th birthday of Glenn Close. The Award winning actor in both film and broadway was born today in 1947, Greenwich Connecticut
And it's the birthday of Bruce Willis. The now retired actor was born 69 years ago today in 1955 Idar-Oberstein in what was then West Germany.
Owning your everyday mystic nature …
A liberal Christian minister standing against evangelical hypocrisy? How's that workin' fer ya?
The Sound of Sunrise
“I paint with my qualities and faults” – van Gogh by Julian Schnabel.
There are no faults in creation. / Perfection is the name for Existence. / An attempt to create meaning /
when meaning has already been created, ourselves we separate / from the very joy we seek. /
Experience extends beyond the embrace of reason. / Music may get close. /
Mahler, Beethoven's Eighth. / Art – van Gogh reached for it / and found it in color.
The reason for a flower? / An epic poem of book length likely becomes incomprehensible. /
Better a painter to her canvas, hearing at sunrise the single note sounded /
from the monk's gong from across the mountain lake. – jab
Give the Oar to the Queen
The moon on this Moon-day is waxing toward full toward the end of the week. TulseyTown this morning is cold with a return of Northerlies for a brief visit before yielding fully to Spring tomorrow . . .
If you don't paddle your own canoe, you can't begin to get where you want to go.
Queen Latifah is celebrating her 54th birthday today. The Academy Award nominated actress and the only rap singer to receive (to date) a Kennedy Center honor recognition and to sing at The Nobel Prize ceremony, was born today in 1970, Newark, New Jersey.
There's an “authority gap,” – the way we still take women less seriously than men – that still tends to stifle contributions to our universal well-being. We remain more reluctant to accord authority to women and anyone who is not the white, male, middle class default. – Author Mary Ann Sieghart at TED Women, October 2023.
Today is John Updike's birthday. Twice honored with Pulitzer Prizes, the poet, essayist, short-story writer, critic, and novelist was born on on this date in 1932 Shillington, Pennsylvania.
Down Time
… I look out the window again.
A wisp from the woods announces that my neighbor
is burning brush.
… Is there anything to write about but human sadness?
Even if there were, I couldn’t write it today.
My neighbor’s smoke has stopped rising; his fire, too,
is down.
– John Updike, Poetry, 1994.
The gift of an Irish silver trout . . .
Sol is shining yet, while Northerlies are bringing cold echoes of Winter to this St. Patrick's Day Spring.
“The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats, in this David Whyte video .
Where you don't see the beloved is where your work is. Everything that brings you down is a message. It's a gift showing you where your mind is secretly clinging. This is your vehicle to liberation. If you're turning away from anything, it's got you. – Ram Dass
Christian fundamentalism continues to be uncovered at the Air Force Academy. – Mikey Weinstein
There is a Way highly possible and attractive for all would-be seekers...Everyday workers and caregivers with mystical hearts and minds can enlighten other individuals, their families, and all they touch, without talking “religiously” at all. – Richard Rohr
Next Time
How will it be different next time?
It will only change if we change,
only if we stop lying about the world
we are living in, dying in –
Only if we stop expecting the ones
who come after us to fix it
because we did not.
– Extrapolations, Season 1, Episode 2: “Whale Fall,” streaming on Apple+ 2024.
Do not content yourself with less than what you are.