Lit by the Sun...

It's truly Sol's day . . . the effects of a major solar flare which began last Thursday, the largest in seven years, are continuing to surround the earth. Some folks in TulseyTown may have had a tiny glimpse of the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) last night. Not to mention odd electronic related effects.

The Way of love can be harrowing. It is not a path of convenience. It requires vigilance and discipline to speak for the voiceless, and courage to accept the consequences of ringing the bells that break the spell of complacency. Yet the fruits of such action are sweet. They are wild fruits, and they yield in abundance—enough to feed a whole kingdom, right here on earth. – Mirabai Starr, Saint Francis of Assisi: Brother of Creation (Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2007, 2013).

The most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. – David Foster Wallace

“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” – Epictetus

Wilding IV

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

…

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

– Mary Oliver, the poem “Wild Geese,” is from Dream Work, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986.

Religion, politics love and war: all in a flying circus . . .

It's the Satyr's day . . . slightly cooler with a cool, warm, and finally cool roller coaster transition forecasted for TulseTown over the next week or so.

Well, no surprise here: Trump Bibles miraculously are an exact match for Ryan Walter's Oklahoma Public Schools mandate.

Today is the birth date of Czech dramatist and president Václav Havel. One of the few writers ever to become the leader of a country was born in 1936 Prague.

In 1969 The British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus debuted on the BBC .

Breakfast at Tiffany's, a film adaptation of Truman Capote's novella, directed by Blake Edwards, had its world premiere today in 1961. Still worth watching for the first or repeated times.

And, Kate Winslet turns 49 today. The British actress was born in 1975, Reading, England

In 1877, A small band of Nez Percé warriors, under the leadership of Chief Joseph, surrendered, ending the Nez Percé war after holding off U.S. forces that had tracked them through Idaho, Yellowstone Park, and Montana.

I am tired of fighting.

Our chiefs are killed. Looking-glass is dead. Too-hul-hul-suit is dead. The old men are all dead.

It is the young men, now, who say "yes" or "no" [that is, vote in council].

He who led on the young men [Joseph’s brother, Ollicut] is dead.

It is cold, and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death.

My people -- some of them -- have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are -- perhaps freezing to death.

I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find; maybe I shall find them among the dead.

Hear me, my chiefs; my heart is sick and sad.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever!

– Nez Percé Chief Joseph, surrender speech delivered today in 1877, Bears Paw Mountains, Montana.

Out of whack

It's Freya's day . . . may the gods bless her ;-] Okieland continues to hold on to near record heat for a Fall day.

The Gregorian calendar, now in general use, was proclaimed in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a reform of Caesar's Julian calendar.

Today is the birth date of Pulitzer Prize journalist Brendan Gill. Considered “a man of letters” he was born in 1914 Hartford, Connecticut

Another “man of letters,” Roy Blount Jr., turns 83 today. The humorist was born in 1941 Indianapolis. .

And, novelist Anne Rice was born on this date in 1941 New Orleans, Louisiana.

Accountability for climate change feels out of whack.

Wilding III

You can never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough....

If the fool would persist in his folly they would become wise. – William Blake