I seem to be a verb…
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
It's Tiw's day . . . Mixed clouds and sun this morning are forecasted to bring a slight chance for thunderstorms for TulseyTown developing this afternoon, becoming likely overnight and into tomorrow morning. Strong Southerlies. Low 80's.
I don’t want to define what a tree is. Each tree is different. I don’t want to self-define and stop becoming. . .The I cannot be sustained. It pretends that a self can survive without a we, without a community, without a constant updating of our ideas of truth. – Sophie Strand
Land rights for all indigenous peoples in Australia were established by the High Court of Australia today in 1992.
Corporate media is gutless and handling Trump with kid gloves terrified of speaking anything that looks like truth to power. From the perspective of The Way, Trump is trying to change the flow of the stream, an impossibility by definition and the ultimate example of attempting to swim against the stream. Avoiding speaking truth to power is another example of the same thing. The only way to navigate The Way is to speak truth to the power of The Way.
Poet Allen Ginsberg was born on this day in 1926 Newark, New Jersey.
It's also the birthday of Larry McMurtry. The author and Pulitzer Prize laureate (Lonesome Dove) was born in 1936 Wichita Falls, Texas.
“Whoopie, we're all gonna die.” – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.
Turn, turn, feigning sanity . . .
Monday, June 2, 2025. It's the Moon's day . . . Moderate to strong Southerlies are in the forecasts to bring only a few clouds to an otherwise sunny, Summer-like day near 90º this afternoon. The weatherfeather indicates a small chance for rain tonight and likely thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. – Eric Hoffer
The Salem Witch Trials began today in 1692.
Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive — sometimes a cry of exultant astonishment, but often a cry of devastation at the collision between our wishes and the will of the world. – Carl Jung, in Maria Popova's Marginalian (online).
Yesterday Morgan Freeman turned 88. The actor, producer, narrator and multiple laureate award recipient was born in 1937, Memphis, Tennessee.
And, Alanis Morissette turned 51. The international multiple laureate singer/songwriter was born in 1974 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
The Week Ahead – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse
There is no doubt: Trump continues to demonstrate that he is more committed to fantasy than reality, as the lug-nuts loosen. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Enlightenments, not enlightenment. A long but superb article on the many ways of The Way by Jack Kornfield in Tricycle online.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin
For you in the chaos feigning sane.
Been there, done that . . .
Sunday, June 1, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . and indeed it is. Easy Northerlies bring bright sunshine and upper 80's to TulseyTown today.
The ego refuses to see itself as it is.
Our success-driven culture scorns failure, powerlessness, and any form of poverty. Yet Jesus begins his Sermon on the Mount by praising “the poor in spirit” … Just that should tell us how thoroughly we have missed the point of the gospel. Nonviolence, weakness, and simplicity are also part of the Western shadow self. We avoid the very things that Jesus praises, and we try to project a strong, secure, successful image to ourselves and the world. We reject vulnerability and seek dominance instead, and we elect leaders who falsely promise us the same. … Shadow work is what I call “falling upward.” God hid holiness quite well: the proud will never recognize it, and the humble will fall into it every day—not even realizing it is holiness. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Meditation.
“Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism.” – Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senate speech, June 1, 1950. Indeed, we have seen this before. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.
So that others do not see our love – after Rilke
We kneel and make pious gestures,
build domes of gold, sing and worship
a blue-sky god, meanwhile
practicing ignorance of Indra's net
connecting us to our earthly origins
our roots shared by mushrooms and stars.
— jab