Sleepwalking

It's Sol's day . . . Heavy rains began last night here in TulseyTown and the Weatherfeather indicates they'll be around all day today and most of tomorrow.

Yesterday's blog had a noticeable error: Daylight Savings ended overnight last night, not tonight as published. So, if you haven't, turn your clock back an hour like I just did.

To become aware of [creation's] loving presence in our lives, we must accept that human culture is in a mass hypnotic trance. We’re sleepwalkers. All great [spiritual] teachers have recognized that we human beings do not naturally “see”; we have to be taught how...to be present to reality. That’s why the Buddha and Jesus say with one voice, “Be awake.” “Buddha” means “I am awake” in Sanskrit. – Fr. Richard Rohr

"Fine photography is literature, and it should be." – That's Walker Evans, whose birthdate is today.

Today in 1992, Whitney Houston, one of the most awarded and best-selling music artists ever, released what became her signature song “I Will Always Love You”

Life?

The flash of a firefly in the night.

The breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.

The little shadow which runs

across the grass and loses itself

in the sunset.

– Chief Crowfoot

Grow a clearer brain: Eat less candy.

It's the Satyr's day . . . the mailbox this morning was full of Halloween left-overs and notes that Okieland is about to be visited by a major late Fall series of thunderstorms. Very heavy rains are in the forecasts beginning tonight, through Sunday. 6-to-8 inches have been indicated.

Some have serious reservations about voting for Kamala Harris for President because of her and Biden's continuing support of Israel in the face of Netanyahu's war and its disastrous consequences for the Palestinian people and Gaza. If anyone might have such reservations, it surely would be Bernie Sanders, the Senator from New Hamshire. Yet, in this video he outlines why we must support Harris over Trump. It is a worthwhile view.

Here in Okieland, out-of-state right-wingers are trying to remove three state Supreme Court Justices to give Gov. Stitt control over the court. The justices have protected a woman's right to control over her body, preserved public school funding, and stopped extremist book-bans. Stitt wants to stiff them. Don't let that happen. If you are a voting Okielander, vote “yes” to retain, Justices Gurich, Edmondson, and Kauger. – from a text from former Gov. Brad Henry.

We are called to engage in a great mobilization, recognition, conversion, and transformation, because now the issues are too big, too real, and too right in front of us every day. – Richard Rohr

Trump's insanity continues to be on display. The list is too long for this blog, but include shooting Liz Cheney, more plans to disrupt the economy, and public display of gestural oral sex. His disease is infectuous for the MADA crowd. – Heath Cox Richardson, Letters From and American, 11/1/24

Today is the second day of el Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead).

The ultimate duality: evil vs. good: The Long Defeat? Or The Advent of Planetary Intelligence?

Tomorrow night, Sunday November 3... turn back the clock to standard time. Make it the only gesture you could make that might be considered in line with the mind-set of the MAGA crowd. They'd like to turn it back 40 years.

Clarity

the page

dry to all touch,

the clock,

wet with tick

-ing.

— jab

Soggy effusions, goblin minds ...

It's Thor's day … and TulseyTown was downright chilly on the walk to the mailbox this Halloween morning. Overnight storms and 60 mph Northerlies ushered Fall in with Thor's thunder.

It was on this day in1795 that John Keats, was born in London.

Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time

…

When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

– John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” This poem was written and published six months before his death at age 25.

Although Halloween, celebrated this day, is now observed largely as a secular holiday, it is, as the eve of All Saints' Day, also a religious holiday among some Christians. The Gaels recognized the evening of October 31 as Samhain, the night when the boundaries between life and death are blurred...Halloween also happens to be the birthday of John Keats...Many of us, use the day to daydream different selves...Especially us poets, who have no choice but to mask up most days to survive in a world that can be antagonistic to sensitivity...illusive, malleable, [even how] unknowable the self truly is. – Adrian Maatejka, “Editor's Note,” Poetry, October 2024.

Eventually October Sunday

Writing dreaming of some where

else this bar becomes too real:

Laughter mates with familiar paper,

wet napkins, depression,

and the onset of winter.

Soggy effusions from some witch's fingernails:

Last leaves from the only oak let go at the quick,

fly past the window like words in Halloween songs

in the minds of goblin dwarves.

– jab