Questioning the questions . . .
It's Tew's day . . . and the Moon is new, encouraging clear skies over TulseyTown after the tornadic storms of last night.
It's the birth date of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1840, Votkinsk, Russia. Romantic that I am, he's my fave and go-to.
Changing Russia's ugly transformation . . .
Australian novelist Peter Carey (Oscar and Lucinda, among several) turns 81 today. He was born in the little town of Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, in 1943.
Today is the 212th anniversary of Robert Browning's birth. The Victorian poet and playwright was born on this date in 1812 Camberwell, England.
What, exactly, do we mean with the word “peaceful?” A good question posed by The Woke Scientist.
While we're asking questions... what's with conspiracy theories and the people who believe them?
Current environmental debates posits a crucial question with an logically obvious answer. A strong consensus of the sciences assert that endless material growth is impossible on a limited planet.
And, so, what's up with Social Security and Medicare?
Love Among the Ruins
For whole centuries of folly, noise and sin!
Shut them in,
With their triumphs and their glories and the rest!
Love is best.
– Robert Browning
The purple of perplexity . . .
It's the Moon's day . . . serious storms are in the forecasts for tonight in Okieland …
You’ll be happy to know that today is the 168th annivesary of Sigmund Freud's birth. The “father of psychoanalysis” was born on this day in 1856 Freiburg, Moravia, now part of the Czech Republic.
It's also the birthday of Orson Welles. The motion picture director, actor, writer, producer, and magician was born in 1915 Kenosha, Wisconsin.
And 87 years ago today the Hindenburg zepplin crashed and burned in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Yesterday's notes surviving the Spring rains here in Okieland …
Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo, the Fifth of May, commemorating the Mexican victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862
Danish religious philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, regarded as the founder of existentialist philosophy, was born in 1813 Copenhagen.
Yesterday Adele turned 36. The multiple Grammy Award recipient was born in 1988, Tottenham, London, England.
Also Tammy Wynette (born May 5, 1942, Itawamba county, Mississippi. She and George Jones became known as “Mr. and Mrs. Country Music.”
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. – Chuang-Tzu
Culture is fast. Evolution is slow. Which means we live with a choice: good stress or not good stress. The speed of modernity has created a panoply of evolutionary mismatches that are making us sick. – Jeff Krasno
We live our human lives in the lacuna between truth and meaning, between objective reality and subjective sensemaking laced with feeling. All of our longings, all of our despairs, all of our reckonings with the perplexity of existence are aimed at one or the other. In the aiming is what we call creativity, how we contact beauty — the beauty of a theorem, the beauty of a sonnet. – Maria Popova, in the Introduction to her soon to be published The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry
It is the duty of human understanding to understand that there are things which cannot be understood. – Søren Kierkegaard
The war is over … if we want it
It's Sol's day … and the walk to the mailbox in the pouring rain this morning was worthy of this singular post . . .
One of my blog readers sent me a link to two genuine healing videos with the titles Women to Men, and Men to Women. The latter subtitled “The war is over. Light has come.” In both, multiple individuals express ownership of the damage done to the other gender and the desires of a truthful future. These have been viral for several years ... I'm just now finding them thanks to you Joey... I'm sharing them for the rest of us on this journey. Timely, IMO, as Mother's Day is next week.
From women to men: the original film by Hanna Milling
The war is over. The light has come. From men to women, based on Milling's original film, this by Bernhard Glasenapp and Étienne Hayem
The past is “past”...that's why we call it “the past.” The future isn't yet … and is beyond even imagining. The only way ahead is The Way, if you have the courage to allow the present moment to “be” what “is.” In that moment the past and the future melt into nothing. Suddenly the way ahead is open, clear and unencumbered by the “is-ness” of the totality manifesting: flowing streams, littered streets, fields of wind-blown grass, bustling crowds, and the beauty of our individuation. All of it.