The earth is a living thing . . .
It's Odin's day . . . TulseyTown continues a cold march toward Thanksgivings . . .
President Joe Biden turns 82 today. He was born in 1942 Scranton, Pennsylvania.
To save the country at the midterms, resulting in a Democratic-led House and Senate, would be a significant check and balance on Trump's bloated and dangerous executive branch. Not an easy task. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse
Today in 1820 The American whaling ship Essex was rammed by a sperm whale and later sank, inspiring the climactic scene in Herman Melville's Moby Dick, 31 years later in 1851.
Life, intelligent or otherwise, originating on a different world could follow entirely different trajectories. Astrobiology researchers have made slow but steady progress in mapping out how to rigorously gather and evaluate data that would be relevant to the very open question of how life beyond our world might make its appearance. One of the larger obstacles has been what is called “the giggle factor,” but that is giving way to scientific rigor. – Adam Frank, writing in Aeon, 19nov24.
The earth is a living thing. Mountains speak, trees sing, lakes can think, pebbles have a soul, rocks have power. – Henry Crow Dog.
...cranberries are terribly exciting. They are the Robert Frost of fruits, the Flaubert, the Frank Lloyd Wright, the Gabriel Fauré. – Garrison Keillor,
Gifts on the Path
It's Tiw's day . . . after the rains comes the sun-filled skies of today in TulseyTown. It's cool as only Fall can be.
We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world. – Gabor Maté
Sharon Olds turns 82 today. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award laureat was born in San Francisco on this day in 1942.
And, Jodie Foster celebrates her 62nd birthday today. The motion-picture actress and director was born in 1962, Los Angeles, California.
On this day in 1863, Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Because we are alive in an interconnected Universe, all of our experiences – every one of those details, even the ones that are seemingly obstacles to us, becomes an essential part, a gift if you will, on the path of The Way.
Mystics — like you and me.
It's the Moon's day … overnight rain continues in TulseyTown until this afternoon along with strong Southerlies.
Today is the birthday of the novelist and poet Margaret Atwood. The author of The Handmaid's Tale was born on this date in 1939 Ottawa, Ontario.
Today in 1928 Mickey Mouse was born when the first sound-synchronized cartoon to attract widespread public notice, Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie," premiered in New York at the Colony Theater.
Trump is trying to use fear and intimidation to bring people who can effectively oppose him to heel…Legality is the crucial disguise Trump will try to wear.– Joyce Vance, “The Week Ahead,” Civil Discorse
4B not in a hurry to go away.
On aging. Grudgingly. Gratefully. Gracefully.
Observations from an everyday mystic. Like you. And me.
Yinergy Haiku
Fascia, singing. / YinYoga mystic woman. / Hair tip to toe nail.
– JAB