The mind of chaos . . .
Thursday, March 6, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . Moderate to strong Southerlies with increasing cloud cover are in the forecasts for TulseyTown today. Not as blustery as yesterday. The weatherfeather says we'll see mid 60's
. . . at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. – Eleanor Roosevelt
If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance, very often. Children are natural learners. It’s a real achievement to put that particular ability out, or to stifle it. Curiosity is the engine of achievement. – Sir Ken Robinson
In the mailbox this morning …
Justice for sale. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
“We were at war with a dictator,” said French center-right politician Claude Malhuret of Europe’s stand against Putin. “[N]ow we are at war with a dictator backed by a traitor.” – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Gabriel García Márquez was born on this date in 1927 Aracataca, Colombia. He's the author of one of the most important books in Latin American literature, One Hundred Years of Solitude .
Today is the 550th anniversary of Michelangelo's birth. The Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet was born in 1475, Caprese, Republic of Florence, Italy.
A new NASA space observatory is scheduled to launch into orbit this week on a lofty mission to map more than 450 million galaxies...targeting an answer to the question “How did we get here?”
Pandora Station
Sad the song set not to music.
Odd the rhyme fixed
not in time of some kind.
Chaos has a harmony all its own.
— jab
Wonderment . . .
Wednesday, March 5, 2025. It's Odin's day …The rollercoaster into Spring continues with strong Northerlies, mainly sunny skies and mid 50's. Winds could gust into the 40 mph range making for a chilly day here in TulseyTown.
March is my birthday month. I love the way Pisces season bleeds into Aries season, always exactly on my birth date, otherworldly and brilliant.
In the mailbox this morning
I find ecstasy in living — the mere sense of living is joy enough. – Emily Dickenson.
A counter programming to Trump's state of the union rant from Joyce Vance in Civil Discourse.
Democracy and liberalism both contain much of value, but they’re not the same thing. They can be conjoined in a successful political order, but their marriage is not inevitable. – Josiah Ober, “Lessons of Demoplis,” in Aeon,
In the teachings on radical self-knowledge, all faults should be dug up, actively revealed, and acknowledged with commitment to work on them. It means to go inward and bring the light of awareness to things we have been hiding with ulterior motives. But do not think that this is a journey filled only with hardships—it is the other way around. There is tremendous joy once we commit to this inner work—so much that we will feel that our whole being cooperates in moving toward freedom. – Anam Thubten, from Into the Haunted Ground: A Guide to Cutting the Root of Suffering, Shambhala, 2022.
Some men, I among them at one time, wonder about love.
Confronted by the fact of our patriarcally received nature
but aware there must be a better way, we wonder.
The poet Robert Bly speaks of a man
who learns to love “the guiding woman.”
His heart is cultivated that way.
– jab adapted from The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, Harper Collins, 1992.
Merciless waves in the Watercourse . . .
Tuesday, March 4, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . A steady rain on the way to the mailbox this morning here in TulseyTown. Forecasts indicate rain diminishing to a few showers by mid morning. Southerlies shifting to moderate Westerlies and then to strong Northerlies tonight. Mid 60's today, 50's tomorrow.
Russia, Russia, Russia – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Although Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised to create a system for waivers to protect that lifesaving aid, the cuts appear random and the system for reversing them remains unworkable. The programs remain shuttered. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
In 1789, by order of Congress, the Constitution of the United States of America went into force. It's the fundamental law of the U.S. government, a landmark document of the Western world and the oldest written national constitution in use.
Keeping up with Sophie Strand: Her new book “The Body Is A Doorway” just published.
The Sea Turtle
[...]
The waves are merciless,
cartwheeling it in the foam.
Head over tail. Head over tail.
But it finds a current and starts its slow
submerged swim, a speck in the sea.
Too far in to return, the turtle breaks the
glimmering surface and takes its first
sea-borne breath.
– Mary H. Palmer RN, C, PhD , “The Sea Turtle,” Rattle, 3.4.2025.