Doubtful door-knocking . . .
Sunday, May 18, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . The weatherfeather indicates that thunderstorm chances for TulseyTown today are slightly less than 50-50 this afternoon rising to 70% tonight. Some of them could be strong. Moderate Southeasterlies are to maintain low 80's.
British philosopher mathematician and Nobel Laureate Bertrand Russell was born on this day in 1872 Ravenscroft, Monmouthshire. His influence continues.
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other....The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. – Bertrand Russell
Ignore the calculated firehose of outrageous distractions. If his lips are moving, he's lying. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.
Wake up, folks. The tornado is on your doorstep, and this time you’re not going to get a warning. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.
The occasional Sunday Sermon:
As the inventors of agriculture and the primary food-gatherers, early humans made the image of the female the first personification of the divine, if you will, the source of all life – nurturers and life-givers. And like the woman who heals in the Xian Gospel of Matthew, we must continue to transgress boundaries, resist cultural norms, and press on toward healing for the sake of our children and their children and their children's children. What does resistance to domination, exploitation, and hierarchy look like in your day-to-day life? – Kat Armas, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 5.17.25
No matter the religion or denomination in which we are raised, our spirituality still comes through the first filter of our own life experience...There is no such thing as an entirely unbiased position. The best we can do is own and be honest about our own filters. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 5.18.25.
Knock on Your Own Door
...after Sophie Strand
Duality is recognized but not embraced
by the feminine, rather
celebrates the liminal
that confuses the unintegrated
masculine, landlocked
in the absolutes of polarities.
The “inner voice” isn't confined
behind the physical door
of the brain-case.
It is a call and response
through the senses
as much in touch
with the flotsam
as the jetsam
of The Way.
– jab
Courageous atoms of amber . . .
Saturday, May 17, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . and moderate Easterlies bring increasing clouds and slight — 15% — rain chances to TulseyTown this afternoon and evening.
Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life. – David Whyte
The first legalized same-sex marriages in the U.S. were performed on this date in 2024 Massachusetts.
And it's been 159 years since French composer Erik Satie was born in 1866 Honfleur, Normandy.
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.