How Long?
It's Moon-day … strong thunderstorms overnight here in TulseyTown have departed leaving us with a sunny, soon to be hot day.
It was on this day in 1946 that English-born poet W.H. Auden became a U.S. citizen.
Braving the Wilderness — Brene Brown
“Together, we’re capable of building a democracy worthy of our dreams” – Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. delivering the commencement address yesterday at Morehouse University. The speech was summarized in an excellent post by Heather Cox Richardson on her blog site “Letters from an American”
The More Loving One
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell . . .
How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equally affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me...
Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime
Though this might take me a little time.
– W. H. Auden, From Homage to Clio. Random House, 1960.
Moving mountains…
It's a sunny Sol's day in TulseyTown with more Spring storm chances on the evening horizon...
Human-Compatible AI: “Putting values” in machines is risky business. – Nathan Gardels, Noema, May 11, 2024.
Most of us have been programmed to believe that we’re supposed to follow a certain script in life in order to be happy. But what if that’s simply not true? What if your happiest, healthiest, most fulfilled life comes as a result of having the audacity to explore what else is possible when you step off the well-trodden path? What if dream BIGGER isn’t always the wisest answer for every person or business?!? Streamlining and simplifying can be the healthiest thing one can do. (And no, dreaming smaller does not mean you’re slacking or limiting your potential.)
What if MORE isn't always better? Constant, unchecked desire for more can lead to destructive, devastating consequences. The solution: Keep the channel open. – Marie Forleo reflecting on Martha Graham.
The true nature of mountains is that they are mountains. They practice both stillness holding their place and moving with change. Men and women can be reborn through mountains. Ancestors abide in mountains. And mountains disappear the closer you are to them. – Excerpted from: Buddha’s Daughters: Teachings from Women Who Are Shaping Buddhism in the West, Edited by Andrea Miller and Editors of the Shambhala Sun. Shambhala, 2014. p.118.
Evanescent: Here and then gone. – David Whyte
Get real . . .
It's the Satyr's day . . . previews of Summer attractions are underway in Okieland today: 90's, almost no wind, and maybe a 1% chance for rain …
The Watercourse moves mountains too... in 1980 At 8:32 a.m. this day— it was a Sunday — an earthquake struck the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington, causing a massive eruption.
Sabine Hossenfelder is getting real about climate change.
It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that because you don't like something, it is empirically not good. I don't like Chinese food, but I don't write articles trying to prove it doesn't exist. – That's Tina Fey, whose birthday is today. The sharp-as-a-tack comedian, actress, writer and producer was born 54 years ago today in 1970 Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.
How about solving humanity’s biggest challenges through the adoption of biomimicry and adapting it into education, culture, and industry.
Even the gatekeepers are sick of dealing with gatekeepers. Creatives are thinking smaller to make a bigger impact.
Among Sorrows and Songs
a Tree Dreams
– for Sophie, after Rilke
My mind deepens in the dark hours
opening to another life
wide and timeless.
There I am a gravesite tree
making real the dream
its living roots embrace
among sorrows and songs.
A dream lost but now found.
– jab