Parallel predicaments . . .
It's Thor's day . . . the rollercoaster continues in TulseyTown – hot today, cool tomorrow.
Today, playwright Moss Hart (You Can't Take It With You) was born in 1904 New York City.
And, British cum American poet Denise Levertov was born on this date in 1923 Ilford, England.
I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close... I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem.
Joyce Vance shares info re: DOJ's active role in the election process now underway. In her Civil Discourse blog.
If it talks like a fascist, walks like a fascist, acts like a fascist … its a fascist. – Heather Cox Richardson, Letters From An American.
It’s hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego. – Pema Chödrön
Sojourns in the Parallel World
We live our lives of human passions ...
in and beside a world...parallel to our own
though overlapping. We call it “Nature”; only reluctantly
admitting ourselves to be “Nature” too.
Whenever we lose track of our own obsessions,
our self-concerns, because we drift for a minute...
No one discovers just where we’ve been,
when we’re caught up again into our own sphere
(where we must return, indeed, to evolve our destinies)
—but we have changed, a little.
Denise Levertov, “Sojourns in the Parallel World” from Sands of the Well. New Directions,1996.
Swimming against The Way . . .
It's Odin's day . . . and more potential heat records are forecasted for TulseyTown. Long range: looks like we turn the corner into fully Fall next week . . .
Good question: "You wouldn't hire [Trump] to babysit your children, so why would you vote to make him president of the United States?” – Liz Cheney
Today is the birthdate of Michael Crichton. The author of The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park among many, was born in 1942 Chicago, Illinois.
And, Johnny Carson was born on this date in 1925, Corning, Iowa.
Life sometimes makes mistakes. Its why some people insist on swimming against The Way.
Next time we feel ourselves jumping to conclusions, what if we paused? What if we got curious instead of judgmental? What stories are we telling ourselves that may not be true?
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. – Zora Neal Hurston. Check out her website.
Prelude to an echo
It's Tiw's day … and TulseyTown is anticipating record heat this afternoon. The rollercoaster weather is forecasted until the middle of next week.
You are not what happened to you. You are who you choose to become.
The Week Ahead, not your ho-hum as usual. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse
Going Nazi: How it happens. Heather Cox Richardson, Letters From an American.
Creatives birthdays today:
The psychologist and author Timothy Leary was born in 1920, Springfield, Massachusetts He along with Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) promoted the use of LSD while researchers at Harvard Univerity.
Catherine Deneuve turns 81 today. The French actress was born in 1943, Paris, France
The composer and pianist Franz Liszt was born on this day in 1811, Doborján, kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire [now Raiding, Austria ]
The full truth is invariably unsatisfying—at least to the small self. Which may explain why so many of us are such poor listeners. – Fr. Richard Rohr
Gaslighting in the name of God.
Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing? You know you will die, but you really don’t know how long you have to wake up from the cocoon of your habitual patterns. – Pema Chödrön
Going to Walden
It isn't very far as highways lie.
… in a book I read and cherish,
going to Walden is not so easy a thing
as a green visit. It is the slow and difficult
trick of living and finding it where you are.
– Mary Oliver, “Going to Walden,” from The River Styx, Ohio. Harcourt, 1973.
The end of a prelude that reached from Austria to The Lone Ranger.