Recommended: become a leaf . . .
It's the Moon's day . . . moving through an echo of summer's heat into full Fall here in Okieland...
Today in 1949 The Berlin airlift officially ended after the Western Allies powers delivered 2,323,738 tons of food, fuel, machinery, and other supplies to West Berlin, which had been cut off from the West during the Soviet blockade of Berlin.
The approach of the warrior in working with the confused or setting-sun world is like an autumn leaf floating down a river. It doesn't change its color, and it doesn't struggle with the river. It goes along with it. This has a natural effect, because the brook or the river has never carried such an autumn leaf before. The confused world will be uncertain what to do with this leaf. So by simply being there, you make people think twice, automatically. – Chögyam Trungpa
A Netflix to be recommended: Will and Harper. Will Ferrell and Harper Steele (transitioned from Andrew Steele) both long time friends from Saturday Night Live take a mental health road trip across America. Harper’s transgender issues are honestly explored revealing the true nature of unconditional friendship. The documentary is warm hearted, funny, informative, insightful, moving and hopeful. It's got a spot on sound track... and stay tuned during the credits for a perfect Tina Fey cameo. If you need more of a review :
The controversial novelist, short-story writer, and playwright Truman Capote (In Cold Blood, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s) was born on this date in 1924, New Orleans, Louisiana.
And, today in 1928 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania
Wilding II
… poets, as you say, are like the holy disciple of the Wild One
who used to stroll over the fields through the whole
divine night.
– Friedrich Holderlin, “Bread and Wine,” News of the Universe, translated by Robert Bly, Sierra Club Books, 1980.
(Wilding is thankfully prompted by The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart. A Poetry Anthology; by Robert Bly, James Hillman and Michael Meade, editors; Harper Collins, 1992.)
Entangled in the ordinary . . .
It's the Satyr's day . . . cloud cover from Helena is moving into TulseyTown but without rain . . .
Extraordinary is too extraordinary a word. – David Whyte
So, how bad was Helena? Usually, pictures are worth the proverbial thousand words. Not this time. Well beyond extraordinary, Heather Cox Richardson posted an overview on Letters from An American.
Quantum entanaglement in the brain. Cognition is not the same thing as the consciousness which contains it. Here's my take: consciousness is totally entangled at speeds that cannot be measured as they are faster than the speed of light, measurement of which is dependent upon particles, while cognition is a physical property of particles (neurons) engaged in gap-jumping-interconnectedness at a measurable speed-of-light. How one might demonstrate this in a lab I've no idea, but would seem to me to be a tautology from the get-go.
Minding the gaps in the mind.
Extraordinarily Ordinary
Seemingly adrift in The Watercourse Way,
each and all, the ordinary and extraordinary:
infused with mysteries. We are ordinary mystics.
There are moments when differences collapse
into singular, undifferentiated experience.
There are no words here.The silent vista
of the Grand Canyon, nor the back shore
of Peaks Island, Maine during a Nor'easter
cannot be embraced by the words
“awe” and “thankful,” even while being
filled with a gratitude the dimensions of which
we were not previously aware we possessed.
– jab
Silent September
It’s Freya’s day . . . TulseyTown is basking in Fall . . .
Today in 1905 Einstein first published his famous equation E=mc2. Check out Garrison Keillor's Writers Almanac for a brief, but worthy overview.
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was published on this day in 1962.
Turns out, fantasy fails at creating reality. – Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from An American.
September Thirty-second Saturday
Island road yellow brown.
Read in grey silence:
A damp current of leaves.
– jab