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In the “Pink” . . .

Friday, April 11, 2025. It's Freya's day … and the “Pink Flower Moon” is almost with us, emerging full tomorrow. The weatherfeather indicates easy Northerlies for TulseyTown today, maintaining sunny skies and mid 70's.

In the mailbox this morning:

Answering ‘What is Zen?’ is like answering ‘What is the ocean?’ To understand the ocean you have to get wet, If you stand at the water’s edge and dip your toe in, you won’t know the ocean. – Les Kaye

Lee's surrender to Grant on April 9, 1865 did not end the Civil War. The ideology that created the war now reigns and threatens democracy again. – Heather Cox Richardson, Letters From An American, 4.9.25.

Today is the birthdate of Poet Laureate Mark Strand, born in 1934 Summerside, Canada.

Before the Light

I awoke just before light

reached this corner of the world.

[...]

My hand on the latch

the door swinging

open to something real.

David Whyte, “Before the Light,” from Everything Is Waiting For You, (revised edition) Many Rivers Press, 2022.

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No “small” parts…nor words . . .

Thursday, April 10, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . and another lovely Spring day is at hand for TulseyTown. The weatherfeather's forecast calls for moderate Northerlies, sunny skies, and low 80's.

This universe, being of Creation, is far beyond the petty sum of all the separate bodies you think you perceive.

The actors Max von Sydow and Omar Sharif were born on this date.

Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” and the original Broadway cast album for “Hamilton” are among the 25 selections entering the National Recording Registry this year.

The first law regulating copyright in the world, The Statute of Anne, was issued in Great Britain on this day in 1710.

It's the birthday of Joseph Pulitzer. The journalist and newspaper publisher was born in1847 Budapest, Hungary.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, was published on this date in 1925

There are no small words.

It's only absurd

when I try to make sense of it.

Memory links to the origin

of the Universe.

Small as we are–

dust mots in a sunbeam

from a mid sized star


in a mid sized solar system

in an infinitely large universe –

nonetheless, we


make each moment holy.

We, my loves, are made quite

enough.

– james allen bethel, “It's Only Absurd” 4.10.25

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A First Amendment reminder . . .

Wednesday, April 9, 2025. It's Odin's Day … and windy Southerlies are to maintain sunny skies and low 80's in TulseyTown today.

“I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.” – Rilke

On this day in 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the Civil War.

Today s Hugh Hefner's birthday. The Playboy publisher was born in 1926, Chicago, Illinois.

Trump vs. the free press. Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, 4.8.25

The GOP wants you to think you can’t do anything to stop them. They want you to feel hopeless. They want you to stay on the sidelines.
They want you to believe your voice — and your donations — don’t matter.

Don’t believe them. You’ll be doing democracy a favor.

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