Healing the present . . .
Monday, August 11, 2025. It's the Moon's day … now waning. A cooler day for TulseyTown with moderate Southerlies and increasing clouds.
Hope is a not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart – Vaclav Havel, quoted by Robert Reich, “Workiing for the Good,” online 9.10.25
Trump has invited Putin to a meeting in Alaska on August 15th. Let that sink in. The Russian dictator invited to U.S. soil. This in spite of Putin having been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, including the theft of Ukrainian children with the expectation that he be arrested and tried for these crimes should he step outside of Russian territory. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Climate migration hits the U.S.
An antidote to today's anxiety designed environment. – Jeff Krasno and Dan Harris, long but worthy chat session.
[Not a quick fix]
For this Interim Time:
The more faithfully you can endure here,
the more refined your heart will become
for your arrival in the new dawn.
– John O'Donohue, in To Bless the Space Between Us, Doubleday, 2008.
Better late than later ...
Sunday, August 10, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . Sol's heat-hammer is relentless:100º+ indices continue with windy Southerlies. Somewhat cooler conditions are in the forecasts ahead. The August Sturgeon Moon is full over TulseyTown.
A thought: Is just a thought.
God may be reached and held close by means of love, but by means of thought never. – from “The Cloud of Unknowing,” cited by Richard Rohr in Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 3.25.25
Many Christians never consciously chose the Republican Party. They were handed a package deal to follow Jesus and vote Republican, and that's that. Until someone like Trump came along, that's when the dissonance became impossible to ignore. – Pastor Doug Pagitt in Rolling Stone 7/13/25.
The United States of America is based not on religion but on the law. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
What's missing in most Christian churches? A wise rabbi. – Cynthia Bourgeault, in Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 8.4.25
As once the winged energy of delight
carried you over childhood's dark abysses,
now beyond your own life build the great
arch of unimagined bridges.
[…]
Take your practiced powers and stretch them out
until they span the chasm between two
contradictions…For god
wants to know himself in you.
– Rainer Maria Rilke, “As Once the Winged Energy of Delight,” transl Robert Bly.
The wandering mind . . .
Saturday, August 9, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . and the weatherfeather has turned into a rubber stamp: Southerlies, a few clouds, and indices above 100º.
You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. — Mark Twain
The award laureate actress, Audrey Tautou (Amélie), turns 49 today She was born in 1976, Beaumont, Auvergne, France
Today in 1854, Henry David Thoreau published Walden.
The poet Philip Larkin was born on this day in 1922 Coventry, England. He was considered one of the great English poets of his time.
Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, born in 1896 Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Known for his research in child development and as the author of The Theory of Cognitive Devlopment which included major pioneering research in human intelligence.
Can you coax your mind from its wandering
and keep to the original oneness?
[…]
having without possessing,
acting with no expectations,
leading and not trying to control:
this is the supreme virtue.
— Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching, verse 10, translation by Stephen Mitchell.