Here comes the rain again
It's Freya's (Frigg's) day . . . and again to TulseyTown, more rain.
I'll be honest: I'm frustrated. This blog is supposed to provide a moment of reflection for creatives. But the mailbox on Watercourse Way is crammed full with hand-wringing attempts to make reasoned sense of what we have done to ourselves, appropriate as that may be for this moment. I promise to put a lid on most of it.
If you missed it: Jon Stewart's message after the sorry news.
Men failed America, but women will not give up so easily – Amanda Marcotte
America has had three foundings: the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. With the election of Donald Trump, America will need a fourth founding to defend and renew its democracy against a man and regime who, as promised, will rule like a dictatorship or some other form of authoritarianism modeled after Vladimir Putin's Russia or Viktor Orbán's Hungary. Are there enough Americans who are up to such a task and responsibility? Chauncey DeVega doesn't think so.
It’s time to prepare for the Trump sequel. The billionaires have won. It’s not doomsday — but there is suffering on the horizon.
All that said, Anne Lennox would have us talk and walk together as lovers do — in the rain.
In the instability, the possibility
It's Thor's day . . . Moderate Northerlies are to bring rain chances tonight and tomorrow into TulseyTown...
Let's be done with the hand wringing. Instead, the ACLU is ready to take action the minute Trump takes the oath of office.
The ACLU is not the only entity building bulwarks against the coming Project 2025 onslaught. Among them: The NRDC, several major environmental defense organizations, and many others – all will be making their plans and moves transparent online in the next several weeks. They'll all need our support. Even if you are on as tight a budget as mine, $1 contributions will help.
It's going to take courage to build and extend our communities of belonging, and nourish our compassionate spirit as we work to repair and heal, deepening our perspective through, hopedfully, greater understanding. While we apparently can't count on the NYTimes anymore, the Washington Post has declared its commitment to keep Trump in sharp focus.
The morning after, Garrison Keillor has declared journalism dead: “There is no point in stating facts anymore. I’m going back to fiction. It’s worked beautifully for the Don and now it’s my turn.”
Impermanence never takes a break. There is never a moment when we’re not in transition—and believe it or not this is good news. The elements that make up this unique moment of your life all came into being at some point; soon those elements will disperse and this experience will be over. – Pema Chödrön
“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.” – James Baldwin
In the instability, the possibility; in the chaos, the building blocks of a stronger structure. – Maria Popova in an “emergency” edition of The Marginalian.
Chaos continues to have a mind of its own.
Some things are always hidden behind other things.
There is an order that confounds our idea of order,
a deeper layer of rules, it emerges, can't be quantified,
and is inherently irrational. It's the yin precursor
to yang's insistence on order.
What goes 'round . . .
It's Odin's day . . . The sun is out, thankfully, here in Okieland.
Well, that didn't turn out as I'd hoped. So, now what?
Election night TV was about as informative and exciting as cold, day-old oatmeal.
Is history repeating itself in some perverse way? On this day in 1860, Americans elected Abraham Lincoln as President. His victory led to the secession of Southern states and the long and bloody Civil War that lasted until 1865 and ended slavery in the U.S. Trump's vision of dismantling the Constitution and with it democracy is tantamount to a kind of secession. Imagine if the East and West coasts joined political forces and created a new nation,ceding the redneck center of the country to MAGA. Sounds like a wacky made for tv drama. Off my rocker, jus' sayin'...
Count on just one certainty: The long-term effects of this potentially shocking election will not be what anyone expects.
We’re used to thinking of the real differences in the world as among religions: you are Buddhist, I am Christian, she is Jewish, he is atheist [you're Republican, I'm a Democrat]. But I wonder if that way of thinking is becoming irrelevant and perhaps even counter-productive. What if the deeper question is not whether you are a Christian, Buddhist, or atheist, but rather, what kind of Christian, Buddhist, or atheist [Republcan or Democrat] are you? Are you a believer who puts your distinct beliefs first, or are you a person of faith who puts love first? – Fr. Richard Rohr
How we feel right now will not be how we feel forever. This is just a small moment in a much bigger story.
You are not alone.
May your passion be for beauty.