Leaving the mind behind …
It's Thor's day . . . and “Sumer is icumen in ” to Okieland and lots of wheresoever elses with gifts from a New Moon for us and all cuckoo roadrunners.
It was on this day in 1944—the “D-Day” of World War II began.
From time to time a piece of jetsam catches my eye as being rather more (fill in the blank descriptor) worth posting under the heading :
In case you were wondering …
More buildings have been wrecked in Ukraine than if every building in Manhattan were leveled four times over.
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Nonbinary identification, gender fluidity and transgenderism have been around for as long as we have existed. They are as normal and natural as homosexuality – another facet of humanity that has still not found equity in many parts of the world. – Chris Wheatley, in Psyche, 4 June 2024
Fittingly: today in 1998, Sex and the City premiered on HBO changing televised “rom-com” forever.
Not the sign of a healthy genre: Hollywood is now suffering at the box office, but you could have predicted it years ago, just based on its aging stars and franchises...the music industry faces the same problem...Even Rolling Stones eventually gather moss. – Ted Gioia
In order to come to your senses, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. – Alan Watts
O Superman . . .
It's Odin's day . . . and the rains have ceased here in Okieland … at least for today . . . ankle-high lawns may get mowed.
Today is the 126th anniversary of Federico García Lorca's birth. The Spanish poet, playwright, and theater director was born on this day in 1898 Granada province, Spain.
Laurie Anderson turns 77 today. The always avant-garde artist, musician, film-maker was born in 1947 Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
John Maynard Keynes born 143 years ago today in 1883, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
The 11 minute speech that changed the world 77 years ago today . . .
This last Saturday, top sports talk host Colin Cowherd pushed back on the idea that Trump's trial was rigged, telling his listeners: “If everybody in your circle is a felon, maybe it’s not rigged...nine of Trump's advisers/managers are felons...Judged by the 'company you keep,' it’s a cabal of convicts.” – check it out on Letters from an American, posted by Heather Cox Richardson.
The arts are often the first to go . . .
… but not always . . .
O Superman, the YouTube video, original release in 1981 by Laurie Anderson... and an explanation.
Moving too fast to see anything . . .
It's Tew's day . . . Northeast Okieland is still days away from drying out or (not) seeing the New Moon . . .
Henry Ford completed, and successfully tested, his first experimental automobile, on this day in 1896 Detroit.
Today in 1919, The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to vote, was passed by the Senate, two weeks after being approved by the House of Representatives; the amendment was ratified the following year.
Yesterday was Larry McMurtry's date of birth. The author and Pulitzer Prize honoree for Lonesome Dove and Brokeback Mountain was born in 1936 Wichita Falls, Texas.
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
It's a paradox: Almost everyone lives in an outside world of duality. Everything has been granted. All the beauty, all the ugly, all the joy, all the terror, all the peace, all the war. We asked for it. We made it out of our addiction to doing at the expense of our being. Don't ever think this is not your choice. What are you choosing in this moment?
Unconditional love arrives not by looking to receive it from outside ourselves but by finding it to be the true nature of our own boundless mind and heart. – Susan Gillis Chapman
We are moving at the speed of light into the future, looking for guidance in the rearview mirror of a Model T Ford – Marshall McLuhan