Thor's fictive spirit
It's Odin's day . . . True to his son Thor's fictive spirit, Hurricane Milton is on track to make landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast tonight and Thursday bringing epic catastrophe not seen in a hundred years. The wind-field of some 400 miles across are forecasted for the Gulf Coast beginning this afternoon with landfall tonight. Devastating 150 mph winds and storm surge of up to 15 feet high in some places are likely.
It's Leif Ericson Day. Ericson reached "Vinland" (likely L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada) sometime in the fall of 1000 C.E, reputedly becoming the first European to reach North America.
If the “God” word carries too much baggage, as it does for many, a small gratitude that the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life will do in place. Gratitude is an expression of confidence in life itself.
Wilding
In a dark time, the eye begins to see a lord of nature weeping to a tree ...
I live between the heron and the wren.
Between beasts of the hill and serpents of the den.
– Theodore Roethke, from the poem “In a Dark Time,” first publication likely in the New Yorker, 1960.
Change and morphic resonance
It's Tiw's day . . . TulseyTown continues its lovely turn into a beautiful Fall . . .
Catching up with prolific Joyce Vance:
The week ahead from yesterday.
It would be a serious mistake for the country if the Justice Department backed off or a future president pardoned Donald Trump. – in Civil Discourse.
Pay attention to the abortion issues surrounding the November election
Disaster is exhausting. Hanna Cole's update #2 to Ashville, North Carolina hurricane aftermath.
Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. On January 12, 2013, he gave a talk entitled The Science Delusion at TEDx Whitechapel. The theme for the night was Visions for Transition: Challenging existing paradigms and redefining values (for a more beautiful world). In response to protests from two materialists in the US, the talk was taken out of circulation by TED, relegated to a corner of their website and stamped with a warning label. The video has been replicated since and viewed by over 7 million people and growing. Among the best is this one from “After School” animators. Very worthwhile, IMO, and solidly reflective of The Way of the Watercourse. Check out more about Rupert Sheldrake and his research.
No one changes unless they want to. Not if you beg them. Not if you shame them. Not if you use reason, emotion, or tough love. There’s only one thing that makes someone change: their own realization that they need to do it. And there’s only one time it will happen: when they decide they’re ready. – Lori Deschene
Knock, knock …
It's the Moon's day . . . The new moon now waxing, Northerlies bringing cool to Okieland as the rollercoaster of the seasons moves along...
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. – Lao Tzu
Poet and essayist Diane Ackerman turns 75 today. The author of “A Natural History of the Senses” among many, she was born in 1948 Waukegan, Illinois.
The motive for starting a meditation practice often arises as a troubling doubt that reason can't erase. . . Something that calls out of our being. It’s an intimation, a sense. As we look we notice it probably can be formed as a question. Is there a God? Why do I suffer? Why is the world as it is? It comes as a doubt. – James Ishmael Ford
The morning after the sudden death of my son, Charlie Bethel (around midnight September 30. 2017), more than a handful of people whose lives he had touched for the better — out of thousands in his creative career — reported being visited in one way or another by a large blue heron.
It is as foolish to ask the meaning of a bird as it is to see it as a random assemblage of feather and bone. Reality lives somewhere between matter and meaning. One makes us, the other we make to bear our mortality and the confusions of being alive. Meaning arises from what we believe to be true, reality is the truth that endures whether or not we believe in it. – Maria Popova, The Marginalian, 09.11.24
Creation is always present in reality as it is, not merely as it should be.
Wilding
A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.
What is the knocking at the door in the night?
It's the three strange angels. Admit them.
– D.H. Lawrence