Inquiring minds sometime freak out
It's Sol's day . . . celebrating a New Moon …
“The greatest thing since sliced bread.” 98 years ago today the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri sold their first slices on July 7, 1928.
Among the greatest … reminders in this morning's mailbox
The historian/writer David McCullough was born today in 1933 and raised in Pittsburn, Pennsylvania. In a revealing conversation at the J.F.K. Library in Boston…
Its the birthdate of Robert Heinlein. The science fiction writer was born 117 years ago today in 1907 Butler, Missouri.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the first use of a vaccine for rabies by Louis Pasteur, in 1885, bringing to mind the question: when did humanity discover vaccination?
A new “planetary realism” takes on a double meaning. It entails both a recognition of the interdependence of the planetary condition as well as a realistic grasp of what it will take to navigate through what remains a world of nations. – Nathan Gardels, in Noema, July 5 2024.
Media freakout and bias against Biden. Surprise? Hardly. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters from an American.
Dare to be naïve – Buckminster Fuller
Let love start this day. Let love end this day. Let love transform the minutes in between.
Turning around in the moonlight . . .
It's Satyr's day . . .aptly named for today's “mailbox” missives: reversals, upside downers, a trickster filled with contradictions. The history of “Saytyr” is replete with these characteristics starting somewhere likely in the Stone Age, evolving to major distortions today.
A note: You may have noticed occasional links to Tricycle Magazine writers. The online mag is a fave of mine. Following a link, you may be asked to subscribe or to engage via a trial. Consider you having been encouraged to do so for this excellet essay from Henry Shukman on “The Art of Being Wrong.”
. . . we love the moments in narratives of all kinds—stories, movies, epics, plays, novels, TV shows— when exactly the opposite happens, when people are proven categorically to be wrong? Part of the answer may be that it sparks a recognition of something about how our life works: that being wrong can, and often does, bring us closer to being right. – Henry Shukman, “The Art of Being Wrong,” Tricycle, repost July 7, 2024 from Summer 2013.
Examples of “turnarounds” synchronistically appeared in today's “Mailbox”
489 years ago today in 1535, English humanist and statesman Thomas More was beheaded for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England.
87 years ago at midnight on July 6th, audiences in New York saw a talkie for the first time in history. “Lights of New York,”
The painter Frida Kahlo was born in 1907near Mexico City. A near death accident turned her life into the painter we know.
The Dalai Lama is 89 years today. He was born in 1935 Taktser, Tibet. Another life turned.
And, It was in 1957 John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met at a church dance in Liverpool, England. The rest is history.
The path of The Way is both light and dark, neither, and always.
… when the light had come
and the moon had gone, you found the path again
waiting through the open window …
as if the way ahead had already been made for your feet…
an echo in the dark to take along the lighted road.
– David Whyte
Chaos has a mind of its own . . .
It's Freya's day … Today, TulseyTown gets a break from the heat hammer which returns tomorrow.
. . . the mystical lives far beyond teachers. Look again, see something new. Allow the disillusionment. It too is holy. Even when it hurts. --Mirabai Starr
Speaking of seeing something new:
Jean Cocteau was born 135 years ago today. One of the most versatile artists of the 20th century, he was born in 1889 Maisons-Laffitte, just outside Paris.
Today in 1954 Elvis Presley recorded “That's All Right,” which became his first hit and helped give rise to rock n roll, igniting an evolutionary change to popular culture continuing today.
On this day in 1989 the first episode of Seinfeld aired on NBC.
And in 1996, Dolly, the first successfully cloned mammal was born near Edinburgh, Scotland.
The “new” just keeps on coming . . .
Robert Zemecki's new film “Here” reuinites Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. Check out the trailer just released ahead of the November premier. Lots of AI generated age changes and a promising script line for the actors.
On the necessary disappearance of realism … from Sophie Strand
"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” Let that sink in for a minute. – Joyce Vance on Project 2025 on her blog Civil Discourse, July 4, 2024
American Dream
The 4th has come and gone
the town's dogs and cats
have come out from their
hiding behind the sofas
with no care
for the American Dream.
– jab