Always On The Way . . .
It's Thor's day . . . after a major rainshower yesterday morning, TulseyTown is cooling down a bit . . .
… the dawn light argues with stoicism and you see the beauty of the ordinary. — Garrison Keillor.
Today is the birthday of Helen Keller. The author and educator was born in 1880 Tuscumbia, Alabama
And poet Frank O'Hara was born 99 years ago today in 1925 Baltimore, Maryland.
Tuesday in 1876 George Armstrong Custer made his last stand with the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American is reminding us that the “cowboy myth” has aways been a myth – harmful one at that and nowhere more so than in Texas.
Why do so many Americans support a neofascist? The Coffee Klatch with Heather Lofthouse and Robert Reich from April, 2024.
76% of Americans and 81% of Republicans know “nothing” about Project 2025, yet you would be impacted, personally, not just in a theoretical sense. This is important. Enough so that I'll be following Joyce Vance's posts regarding Project 2025 with repost links.
Regarding this journey we are on . . .
The Road to Santiago
For the road to Santiago
don't make new declarations
about what to bring
and what to leave behind.
Bring what you have.
You were always going
that way anyway,
you were always
going there all along.
— David Whyte, from 'The Road to Santiago' from Still Possible
Plants are smarter than we are . . .
It's Tew's day . . . and the heat indices are headed for 108º this afternoon here in TulseyTown...
The danger is that if we invest too much in developing AI and too little in developing human consciousness, the very sophisticated artificial intelligence of computers might only serve to empower the natural stupidity of humans. – Yuval Harari
Buddha was more scientist than a “religious” teacher. He saw that the non-dual nature of reality was more transparent than material. Most of our physicists are now insisting that 95-99% of the universe is composed of what they call “dark matter.” The term “dark” means they can't find a term that describes what they don't understand, and the term “matter” reveals their hypnotic addiction to the duality of substances – particularity, if you will. The universe is neither dark nor matter. It is neither dark nor light. It is transparent.
Attachment masquerades as (or pretends to be) love / Pity masquerades as compassion / Indifference masquerades as equanimity. – Jack Kornfield
Equanimity means we allow all things into our consciousness, both those things we first perceive as being bad and those we perceive as being good, without judging immediately which they might be. Suspended judgment is the embrace and even celebration of the “is-ness” of the moment.
Plants have minds. They process information, interact with and communicate with miscellia, insects, birds, light and water ... and move intentionally. Much of science remains “soul blind.”– Rachael Petersen MDiv in Aeon.
The tragedy of our times is the tragedy of Lear, ‘we would rather murder the world than permit it to expose us to change.’ – Stanley Cavell, The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy. United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 1982.
Connecting the dots…
It's another Moon day . . . tell that to the Sun. It was 102º when I went to the mailbox shortly after sunrise today.
“Making” a “thing” is wholly different from “Creation.” The former is finite, tending by design toward fixed. The latter infinite, and the source of ongoing change. Creation is your Source and your only real function. You are not a “thing.”
St. John of the Cross was born 482 years ago on this day in 1542 Hontiveros, Spain. He is considered one of Spain's greatest poets. Among them “The Dark Night of the Soul.”
Pulitzer poet Stephen Dunn, born in 1939 Forest Hills, New York.
The first well-known UFO sighting occurred on this day in 1947, when businessman Kenneth Arnold claimed to see a group of nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington while flying his small plane.
Speaking speed, here’s an update on highspeed rail in the U.S.
If you missed it, can't remember it, or want to re-experience it: Here is Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford University Commencement Address. Perhaps the most valuable and memorable in the history of such events anywhere.
Muse
When, in the night, I wait for her, impatient,
life seems to me, as hanging by a thread.
What just means liberty, or youth, or approbation,
when compared with the gentle piper's tread?
And she came in, threw out the mantle's edges,
declined to me with a sincere heed.
I say to her, "Did you dictate the Pages
Of Hell to Dante?" She answers, "Yes, I did."
– Anna Akhmatova
A liminal space exists between every moment.