No time in wartime . . .
Wednesday, May 14, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . Moderate Southerlies bring a hot mid 90's to TulseyTown today.
Pausing very briefly, frequently throughout the day, is an almost effortless way to learning to stay present. For just a few seconds we can be right here. Meditation is another way to train in learning to stay, or, as one student put it more accurately, learning to come back, to return to being present over and over again. – Pema Chödrön
The Week Ahead – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.
If his lips are moving, he's lying. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.
Today in 1804 Lewis and Clark set out on their exploratory expedition from St. Louis.
Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novel Mrs. Dalloway was published on this date in 1925
Creatives celebrating their birthdays today:
The motion-picture director, producer, and screenwriter George Lucas turns 81. He was born in 1944, Modesto, California.
The Academy Award laureate Cate Blanchett turns 56. She was born in 1969, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
And, David Byrne turns 73. The Scottish-born musician and interdisciplinary artist was born in 1952, Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
Adding and subtracting wonder . . .
Tuesday, May 13, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . Moderate to strong Southerlies, sunny skies, upper 80's – a preview of Summer for TulseyTown today.
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. – Lao Tzu
Yesterday, Buddhists around the world began celebrating Vesak also known as “Buddha Day.”. Held during the first full moon of May, Vesak marks the birth, enlightenment, and death of the historical Buddha, Siddartha Gautama, born 2,600 years ago. In some traditions these three pivotal moments are all said to have occurred on the same day, many years apart.
So, who was this “Buddha” ?
An excellent summary primer on East Asian philosophic thought and its sources.
Stevie Wonder turns 75 today. The child prodigy, adult singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist was born in 1950 Saginaw, Michigan.
In an age where certainty is currency, doubt has become a radical act. – Massimo Pigliucci, Psyche 5.8.25.
All of us, whether we know it or not, are made up of otherness. We are threaded through with unknowability. – Sophie Strand, Make Me Good Soil.
It's Sol's day . . . Moderate Northerlies, sunny skies, low 80's are in the forecasts for this Mother's Day in TulseyTown. A Full “flower” Moon rises at about 7:50 this evening.
It's “Mother's Day” in the U.S. Many countries around the world have a multi-century history of a day to celebrate mothers. In the U.S. that day is today. On this Mother's Day Sunday, Fr. Rohr's Meditation calls us to embrace the sacred feminine.
Today is the birthday of Salvador Dalí. The Spanish surrealist artist and filmmaker was born in 1904 Figueras, Spain.
And, it's the birth day of Richard Feynman. Widely regarded as the most brilliant, influential, and iconoclastic figure in theoretical physics in the post-World War II era, he was born in 1918, New York City. He contributed to the development of the Atomic Bomb project and was also a Nobel Prize Laureate, musician and a bit of a raconteur.
This year marks the 927th birth anniversary of Hildegard of Bingen. The polymath, writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, medical writer and practitioner was born in 1089. She is also She has been considered by a number of scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history. While the mists of time have blurred her actual birthdate, we are fortunate to have many of her gifts still influencing our time.
Those of us who are truly lucky have more than one mother. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Marriage Vow
The gap:
Between these letters, words on this page,
spoken in this or the next or another
room.
Silence:
the mother of creation.
Bride's-maid of the ten-thousand things.
– jab