The sea – OMG! see the sea.
It's Sol's day . . . Here in Okieland (and all the elsewheres) we're looking at Fall on the horizon …
When you look at anything as separate from you, you cannot love it. You're afraid of it. But when you know beyond all doubting that the same life that flows through you flows through all that is, and you are are that life, all living beings in the entire universe are included in your heart. – Sri Nisargadatta
Speaking of tending to the Watercourse Way, a couple of noteworthy dates for us
Today in 1952, Life magazine published Ernest Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea, his last major work of fiction; also released as a book, it won a Pulitzer Prize in 1953.
In 1985 the wreck of the Titanic was found on the ocean floor on today's date at a depth of about 13,000 feet. Oceanographer Robert Ballard led the search team on the discovery.
And, yesterday was the birthdate of Maria Montessori, born on this day in Chiaravalle, Italy (1870). She guided a revolution in the ways we educate children, the waves of which continue to this day and even into “higher” education.
Why “higher education” isn't in the minds of younger, more critical students. More nails in the coffin . . .Academics zero in on narrower and narrower topics in order to establish unique niches and, in the process, what was once a discipline that sought answers to humanity’s most fundamental questions becomes a jargon-riddled puzzle for a narrow group of insiders. – Abigail Tulenko in Aeon.
I am beginning to think that much of institutional religion is rather useless if it is not grounded in natural seeing and nature religion. – Richard Rohr
Monstrous Shenanigans
It's Freya's day . . . and Thor's heat-hammer may have been put away 'til next year . . .
Today is the 227th anniversary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's birth in 1797, London, England.
Buddy Guy turns 88 today. The blues guitarist was born George Guy in 1936 Lettsworth, Louisiana.
What a load of nonsense. When Kamala Harris unveiled her economic plan — including the first-ever national ban on price-gouging — the corporate media responded with a flood of hot takes about “Soviet-style price controls” and predictions of widespread food shortages. – Robert Reich in Inequality Media: Civic Action
A draft dodging traitor decided to lie about our armed forces staff, so the Pentagon went to paper despite its tradition of avoiding statements at all costs. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters from An American.
Joyce Vance is headed back home today from a visit to Scotland ready to tackle the legal shenanigans surrounding the draft dodger, impeached, felon.
Don't mess with the Hoochie Coochie Man.
Monumentals. . .
It's Thor's day … perhaps the last of the heat-hammer days as we begin another slow seasonal turn . . .
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts." – John Locke, who's birthdate is today. The British philosopher was born in 1632 Wrington, Somerset, England.
In Civil Discourse, Joyce Vance filed a summary brief of the superseding indictment in the election interference case filed by Jack Smith.
The campaign, one dwindling part of which is imploding. Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from An American.
Chaos and Cause – Erik Van Aken, in Aeon,
Garrison Keillor has a few ideas about what to do with Trump's legacy and other national embarassments as they fade into the past.
And, it's Charlie Parker's birthdate. The great jazz saxophonist was born in 1920 Kansas City, Kansas. Known as “Bird,” Parker is regarded as among the handful of truly great jazz musicians.
“As for what to do with Mar-a-Lago fifty years from now when Trump is long forgotten, I take no position. The number of lies he’s told has surely passed a hundred thousand and is close to two, maybe three. Any statue of him is a waste of good marble and that’s the truth.” – Garrison Keillor