Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Monday, April 14, 2025. It's the Moon's day . . . waning every so slightly from its full-of-itself-pinkery of yesterday.
Speaking of yesterday:
The playwrite, essayist and Nobel Prize Laureate, Samuel Beckett was born in 1906 Dublin, Ireland.
In 1909, short story writer, essayist and photographer Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi.
Today, Julie Christie turns 85. The multiple award winning international film star was born today in 1940 at Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam, British India.
And it's Loretta Lynn's birthday. The “coal miner's daughter” and ground breaking country singer was born in 1932, Butcher Hollow Kentucky
Speaking of stories and story tellers:
You never hear a Jew say, “I’m not going to Passover Seder this year because I already know the story.” And you never hear a Christian say “I’m not going to an Easter service this year because I already know the story.” Of course we know the stories! The point is not that the stories change, but that we do. – Marianne Williamson, unpacking the metaphysics of Easter (if you are so inclined).
Most “Sick But Spunky Girl” stories are really just snuff films. A critique by Sophie Strand.
What Sophie teaches is that the real challenge of this moment isn’t just what’s happening to us; it’s how we respond within it. Do we harden, or do we stay open? Reflect on the reality of The Way. It's principle is creation. No matter the illusions otherwise.
Your intuition is always speaking. But if your nervous system is in fight, flight, or freeze, you can’t hear it.
Your heart knows The Way. Run in that direction. – Rumi
“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
Transcending human . . .
Sunday, April 13, 2025. It's Sol's day … and strong Southerlies bring a preview of Summer heat to TulseyTown today. Winds likely to gust into the 40 mph range with sun and clouds mixed and low 90's this afternoon.
Joyce Vance's roundup of Trump's political sh*t storms posted on The Contrarian yesterday. And her weekend update.
More-than-human intelligence is upon us. – Nathan Gardels in Noēma, 4.11.25.
It's Palm Sunday in the Christian tradition and Passover in Judaism.
“Culture eats Christianity for breakfast” to use a modern turn of phrase, and our deep transformative power is largely lost. How do we find inner freedom? – Fr. Richard Rohr, Mediations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.
Be careful trying to touch the moon . . .
Saturday, April 12, 2025.
It's the Satyr's day . . .The saunter to the mailbox this morning was under clear, cool and calm skies. Forecasts indicate moderate to strong Southerlies for the afternoon with more Spring sunshine and 80's. The moon is full of itself. The “Pink Flower Moon” is the smallest of full moons. Named after a flower and not actually pink, it will be rising this evening over TulseyTown about 8 p.m.
In the mailbox:
Poet Gary Soto turns 72 today.
It's also the birthday of Herbie Hancock. Born in 1940 Chicago, the jazz musician turns 72 today.
Today is the day that The Civil War began in 1861, when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
In 1633 Galileo Galilei was put on trial on this date by the Inquisition, for supporting the theory that the Earth revolves around the sun. It wasn't until 1992 that the Catholic Church formally admitted that Galileo's views on the solar system are correct.
On this day in 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Warm Springs, Georgia.
Heather Cox Richardson has posted a summary status report on the Der Trumpenfurher administration's latest terror tactics. Check out her Letters From An American.
What Now?
Where did the shooting stars go?
[…]
At night, I now look upward—
Jets and single-prop planes.
No brief light, nothing to wish for,
The neighbor’s security light coming on.
Big white moon on the hill,
Lantern on gravestones,
You don’t count.
— Gary Soto, “What Now,” Academy of American Poets, 2016.