Solitude is a river . . .
Friday, May 16, 2025. It's Freya's day . . .The weatherfeather indicates moderate Westerlies bringing sunshine and a few clouds with upper 80's to TulseyTown today.
Inner peace and world peace, personal prosperity and economic equality, personal health and planetary health—all of these are illusory dualisms in the non-dual reality of the dharma in which all are joined as one … just as you and I in this moment of your reading this.
How do we foster human connection in an age of AI? Interesting question being posted by several internet pundits. All agree we need to do more real world face-to-face and put down our devices. Of course this advice is being published on devices and across platforms. – jus' sayin'
From the “If-I-can-get-away-with-this-one-I can-go-for-all-of-them” Trump file: DOJ Indicts A Judge – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.
Trump: if his lips are moving, he's lying.
Decades of wellness studies have identified a formula for happiness, but you won’t figure it out alone. – Susan Dominus, The New York Times Magazine, 5.1.25.
What psychedelics can teach us has more value than you might think. – David J Blacker, Psyche, 4.19.25
Solitude is a courageous encounter wherein we bring our naked, most raw and real self, into the presence of pure love. Quite often this can happen right in the midst of human relationships and busy lives. – Richard Rohr.
At The River Clarion
Sitting in the river named Clarion on a
water splashed stone, all afternoon
I listened to the voices of the river.
[…]
You don't hear such voices in an hour or a day.
You don't hear them at all if selfhood
has stuffed your ears.
[…]
And still, pressed deep into my mind
the river keeps coming, passing by on its
long journey, its pale, infallible voice singing.
[…]
… the river Clarion still flows
from wherever it comes from
to where it has been told to go.
— Mary Oliver, “At The River Clarion” in Evidence: Poems. Beacon Press, 2009.
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.