Minding the store . . .
Truly a Moon Day . . . full as of 2 a.m. this morning in Okieland where the Spring roller-coaster continues to roll more than coast . . .
In the mailbox this morning, a follow-up on yesterdays blog re: Possible impossibilities (and flipping its head): Love Anyway, from Maria Popova's Marginalian, 3/24/2024
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development. – Jonathan Haidt, in The Atlantic, 03/2024.
Birthdays today:
Gloria Steinem is 90 years old today. The journalist and social-political activist was born on this day in 1934, Toledo,Ohio
Today in 1306, on a birthday of a different sort, Robert the Bruce, was crowned Scottish king at Scone, freeing Scotland from English rule. He went on to win the decisive Battle of Bannockburn (1314) and confirming Scottish independence in the Treaty of Northampton (1328).
Speaking of England, Elton John is celebrating his 77th. The EGOT winner was born today in 1947 Pinner, Middlesex, England.
And speaking of music, Composer Béla Bartók was born 143 years ago on this date in 1881, Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary, Austria-Hungary now Sânnicolau Mare, Romania
And you can tell everybody this is your song.
It may be quite simple, but now that it's done,
I hope you don't mindthat I put down in words
how wonderful life is while you're in the world
– Elton John
Impossible possibilities . . .
Strong Southerlies and major storm chances have somehow found peace in this Sol's Day morning mailbox . . .
You, I, we – live in possibility, unfolding from potential beyond our imagination.
Today in 2008 Bhutan held elections for the National Assembly, thereby completing the country's transition to a democracy. The country is officially committed to advancing possibilities for the whole world.
For tens of thousands of years, we killed everything bigger than us, and for the last 150 years, we've attempted to kill everything smaller. The paroxysms of anxiety that death elicits have led us to create myth upon myth . . . while the carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, calcium, and phosphorus that somehow miraculously self-assembled into what was your life all goes back into the cycle of nature to feed the emergence of new life. Obviously, there is another way to look at things.
Today is the day Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in 1919 Yonkers, New York.
A few Ferlinghetti pondermoments:
I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
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If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
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Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.
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I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media? It's not often poets get on mainstream media." I said, "Well I think you're the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you're not the mainstream media. The mainstream media is still the high culture of intellectuals: writers, readers, editors, librarians, professors, artists, art critics, poets, novelists, and people who think. They are the mainstream culture, even though you may be the dominant culture."
I may write my own
eponymous epitaph
instructing the horsemen
to pass.
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Miracles in the palm of your hand . . .
It's a blustery Satyr's day in TulseyTown and the mailbox is rattling …
249 years ago today in 1775, Patrick Henry, delivered the speech that concluded with the phrase “give me liberty or give me death” at at St. John's Church in Richmond during the second Virginia Convention run-up to the American Revolution.
Both geopolitical and economic security risks could morph into fervent nationalisms that would damage the overall prospect of humanity, due to lack of cooperation in the face of an imminent global warming point of no return.
Ai assisted farming … really? Ethical guidelines? When?
“William Blake’s Universe” is showing in a new staging at the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge.
It's the 114th birthday celebration for Akira Kurosawa. One of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema was born on this date in 1910, Tokyo, Japan.
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.
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To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.– William Blake