Gettin' dizzy w/it
It's the Moon's day … now waning toward newness while a warming trend settles on TulseyTown …
Among the creator's among us, three showed up in the mailbox this morning:
Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on this date in 1772 Ottery St. Mary in Devonshire, England.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan Or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment. In the public domain.
Novelist Ursula Le Guin was born in 1929 Berkeley, California.
And the trumpeter and bebop seminalist Dizzy Gillespie was born in 1917, Cheraw, South Carolina https://www.biography.com/musicians/dizzy-gillespie
A Puzzle: I see today that everyone on earth wants the answer to the same question, but none has the language to ask it. / The inconceivable is clearly inconceivable / Dogs know the answer by never asking the question, but can't advise us. – Jim Harrison, “A Puzzle,” Songs of Unreason. Copper Canyon Press, 2011.
The compassion of a bodhisattva is vast … It is the wish to free all sentient beings without any bias from all suffering and from its causes, not only in the present but until all beings have become buddhas. Merely wishing is not enough; their compassion impels bodhisattvas to actually strive to bring this about. This requires that they become buddhas themselves, which is no small task. – David Karma Choephel
Panpsychism suggests that even rocks might be conscious while not necessarily sentient.
The Way
with intent, wanders.
Searches, but finds not,
finds, but does not use.
Knowing nothing, knows everything.
It's enough to make you dizzy.
Looking better …
It's Sol's day . . . a lovely Fall day here in Okieland, and there’s value in history.
The real value of a real education … has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness. – David Foster Wallace
History keeps repeating itself: No news there, but some insights from Heather Cox Richardson, Letters From An American.
Gearing up for the vote counts. Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.
Making the world better by looking . . .
The Way
Paints but leaves no trace.
A mind of its own
never does not ever think
while inquiring minds want.
Don't grin . . . Bear it
It's the Satyr's day . . .
Gearing up for the vote counts. Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.
110 years ago today in 1914, During World War I, the Allies and Germans settled into the first trench warfare battle that characterized the remainder of the war on the Western Front in Flanders. By the end of 1914, after just five months of fighting, the number of dead and wounded exceeded four million men. Trench warfare continued to 1917. WWI ended in 1918.
On this day in 1781, Britain's Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively ending the American Revolution and assuring America's independence.
In diverse societies, culture wars can never be decisively won. They can only ever reach the peaceful tension of a modus vivendi or fall apart altogether. – Nathan Gardels writing in Noēma, 10.17.24
The part of the human mind that holds a fixed belief is the part of the mind that from an evolutionary point of view needs to name things and name them exactly, even if the name is not true, to create a common language with my community or in order to grant us an illusory sense of control in a constantly moving, restless world. – David Whyte
You may want to consider re-writing your script.
The Bear
When my propane ran out
when I was gone and the food
thawed in the freezer I grieved
over the five pounds of melted squid,
but then a big gaunt bear arrived
and feasted on the garbage, a few tentacles
left in the grass, purplish white worms.
O bear, now that you've tasted the ocean
I hope your dreamlife contains the whales
I've seen, that one in the Humboldt current
basking on the surface who seemed to watch
the seabirds wheeling around her head.
– Jim Harrison, Saving Daylight, Copper Canyon Press 2006