Searching for/with a lost mind . . .
Tuesday, June 10, 2025. It's Odin's day. . . and the “Strawberry Moon” became full around 3 a.m. this morning. The “Strawberry Moon” name has been used by Native American Algonquian tribes that live in the northeastern United States as well as the Ojibwe, Dakota, and Lakota peoples to mark the ripening of strawberries that are ready to be gathered. Alternative European names for this Moon include the Honey Moon. June was traditionally named after the Roman goddess of marriage, Juno. Following marriage comes the “honeymoon,” which may be tied to this alternative Moon name. – from The Farmer's Almanac.
Heather Cox Richardson's Letters From An American put into context Trump's attempt to create a police state.
The week ahead. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.
The man who launched an attempted coup on the United States in 2020 and instigated an insurrection at the Capitol that resulted in five deaths now claims that people in Los Angeles are launching an insurrection. They’re not. – Robert Reich
Confronting reality: Today is Gustave Courbet's birthday. The French painter and leader of the Realist movement was born in 1819, Ornans, France.
Lost Mind
– after Joni Mitchel
Clouds come and go but are still clouds
just as do illusions. If fortune allows
love comes and as illusions, go,
but is still love.
Confounded pride
insists illusions real,
silencing our out loud
embrace of the one moment
when we could have known
what it meant to be alive.
– jab
… even educated fleas do it . . .
Monday, June 9, 2025. It's the Moon's day . . . indeed, as it becomes full on Wednesday. Easy Northwesterlies, clearing skies and upper 80's are in the forecasts for TulseyTown today.
"Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy." — St. Francis of Assisi
Cole Porter was born on this day in 1891 Peru, Indiana.
It's the birthday of the novelist and peace activist Baroness Bertha von Suttner. The sometimes secretary to Alfred Nobel, she influenced him to create the Nobel Prize. Born today in 1843 Prague, she became the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace laureate in 1905.
Los Angeles is on fire. Again.
Time. Moving too fast? Too slow? Finding yourself in the middle of rabbit's “gotta go, busy, backsoon?”
Take the time. Just do it.
A spell against indifference . . .
Sunday, June 8, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . A real taste of Summer is gifted to TulseyTown today. Moderate Southerlies, a few clouds here and there in a sunny, hot sky. Low 90's for the first time this season. The weatherfeather indicates that often 15% chance for a shower until evening when it rises to around 40%.
It is good, every once in a while, to let ourselves be stupefied by gratitude, to cast upon ourselves a spell against indifference by moving through the world with an inner bow at every littlest thing that prevailed over the odds of otherwise in order to exist. – Maria Popova
Today is World Oceans Day, celebrated yearly on this date to raise awareness of the plight of the oceans and the marine ecosystems they contain.
It's the birth date of Frank Lloyd Wright. The creative master of American architecture was born in 1867. Richland Center,Wisconsin.
And, Sara Paretsky turns 78 today. The multi-award laureate and best-selling crime novelist was born in 1947 Ames, Iowa. She is is credited with transforming the role and image of women in the crime novel with her novel character, the female private investigator, V.I. Warshawski.
Most of Christianity has formed itself into a country club with exclusive memberships even inside its churches ... exactly the opposite of Jesus’ intention. To this day, the Eucharist defines membership in terms of worthy and unworthy. Even if we deny that is our intention, it’s clearly the practical message people hear. Isn’t it strange that sins of marriage and sexuality are the primary ones we use to exclude people from the table, when other sins like greed and hatefulness that cause more public damage are never considered? – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.
Healing
… the wounds to the soul take a long, long time
and patience, and a certain difficult repentance
… from the endless repetition of the mistake
which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.
— D.H Lawrence, “Healing,” Last Poems, Viking Press.1933 (this book is out of print).
Even with blind faith, I can't find my way back home . . .