Red sails in the sunset . . .
Thursday, March 27, 2025 It's Thor's day … Red sky this morning in TulseyTown's east horizon. A front moving from the West brings a forecast for rain chances extending into next week. The weatherfeather today also indicates moderate Southerlies and a warm day in the mid 80's.
Red sky at morning, sailors take warnining.
Red sky at night, sailors' delight.
Despite Kennedy and Trump's rhetoric about keeping "our children healthy and strong," the administration's policies serve the opposite goal. It is hard to imagine a more sweeping agenda to make Americans less healthy. – Amanda Marcotte on Salon 3.26.25
What will it take? – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Dreaming while awake: Story telling vs. story selling. – Sophie Strand.
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. That said, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present…gratefully.
Absolutely Rain
Foundations are crumbling.
Around us is much fear, many
terrified of a future for which
there is no language:
Forced to face the consequences of
our habitual denials in the face of absolute
change, our lack of faith, fearful of
an abandoned past,
and the truth of our having lied to ourselves
in the rising impossible need to hold
fast to the dissolution of everything known.
We are strangers in a strange land
insisting on using maps the lines
and names on which have been erased.
Our prayers fall on our own deaf ears.
Drum-beats consistent with those in our chests
strike panic in our hearts. All our gods abandoning us.
Strangers in funny clothes speak of gentle forbearance,
calm endurance of hardship and acceptance of the truth:
The maps have never been the territory.
Grown men – most are men –
little children standing in a thunderstorm
shaking fists at the sky screaming
“It shouldn't be raining.”
While it is absolutely true
that we long to stand on solid ground,
it is also absolutely true that there is
absolutely only one absolute.
If it is raining, absolutely
it should be raining.
Absolutely.
– jab from his someday to be published collection “Prelude to the Afternoon of An Echo.”
Rewilding in the Frost . . .
Wednesday, March 26, 2025. It's Odin's day … Easy Easterlies are to bring sunny skies and low 80's to TulseyTown today.
Today is the birthdate of poet Robert Frost. He was born today in 1874 San Francisco.
It's also Joseph Campbell's birth day. The prolific author and mythologist was born in 1904, New York City.
And playwright Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 Columbus, Mississippi.
Remembering Francis Perkins. “There is always a large horizon…. There is much to be done … it is up to you to contribute some small part to a program of human betterment for all time.” – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
The “overview effect.” We can be roused through experiences of wonder and awe to think in bigger ways about ourselves, and to be more compassionate and understanding. – Graham Lau in Aēon Psyche, 3.25.25
Rewilding Wilde. Those who have attempted to mold Wilde to their own agenda, simplifying his complexities, have soon found that ‘he turns to quicksilver in their fingers’. – Sam Mills in Aēon, 3.25.25.
This week, the impact of what it means to be America under Trump 2.0 will continue to hit hard. One important indicator: Tourism to the U.S. is on the decline. – Joyce Vance, The Week Ahead, Civil Discourse.
Heather Cox Richardson posted “the skinny” on the Trump team f**k up exposing secret war plans making soldiers and pilots vulnerable to attack.
Neglect
They leave us so to the way we took,
As two in whom they were proved mistaken,
That we sit sometimes in the wayside nook,
With mischievous, vagrant, seraphic look,
And try if we cannot feel forsaken.
– Robert Frost. This poem is in the public domain.
Finding an ear . . .
Tuesday, March 25, 2025. It's Tiw's day … The weatherfeather for today: Northerlies, sun, clouds, low 80's – a preview of Summer for TulseyTown.
It is the burden of life to be many ages
without seeing the end of time.
– Jim Harrison, “Seven in the Woods,” Dead Man's Float, Copper Canyon Press, 2016.
Today in 1960, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled that the unabridged version of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence was not obscene.
Flannery O'Connor was born today in 1925 Savannah, Georgia. She died way to early of lupus after 2 novels and multiple short story collections which garnered major awards posthumously. She is said to have described the focus of her work as “ the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil." in Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970
And Gloria Steinem turns 91 today. The feminist writer and activist was born in 1934 Toledo, Ohio.
The angelic nature of physics.
New poems arrive when they feel like it. I try to help them find an ear other than my own.