Dancing in the dark . . .
Saturday, August 23, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . Moderate Northerlies bring slight rain chances to TulseyTown today and tonight. Mornings in the 60's are now a regular morning feature as we ease into the Fall seasonal pattern. The weatherfeather indicates today to be the last 90º day of the year. Across the country, collegiate footballers return to the gridiron. And, The Black Moon rises.
Emptiness isn’t nothingness, it’s spaciousness. And spaciousness isn’t empty; it’s full of possibility.
Poet Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology) was born on this day in Garnett, Kansas, in 1868.
And the writer Sophie Kerr was born in 1880 in Denton, Maryland. While her prolific writing never made her famous, she nonetheless initiated the Kerr endowment at Washington College for a promising writer. The writing program now draws many future writers and lectures from many current notables.
The dance of darkness and light. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.
Mirabai Starr is writing a new book. Today she posted a personal note about starting out with intention on new adventures. Rather apt for all us creatives.
Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.
Nothing Is Lost
...Before our world dissolves before our eyes
waiting for some small, intimate reminder,
a word, a tune, a known familiar scent
an echo from the past when, innocent
we looked upon the present with delight
and doubted not the future would be kinder
and never knew the loneliness of night.
– Noel Coward, “Nothing Is Lost,” from Collected Verse of Noel Coward. Graywolf Press, 2007.
Relishing freedom . . .
Friday, August 22, 2025. It's Freya's day . . . Easy Northerlies continue into TulseyTown. Sunny, low 90's are in the forecasts. The Moon is new.
People think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson,
Henri Cartier-Bresson was born on this day in 1908, Chanteloup, France. He was the photographer of extraordinary clarity-in-a-moment, and championed photojournalism as an art form.
Dorothy Parker, was born today in 1893, West End, near Long Beach, New Jersey. The poet, critic and master of wit was one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table.
Writer Annie Proulx was born in 1935 Norwich, Connecticut, on this day.
It’s also Ray Bradbury’s birth date. The science fiction and fantasy writer was born in 1920 Waukegan, Illinois.
Texans relish their freedoms. They don’t want to be controlled by Washington. They don’t want to live in a dictatorship. The spirit of Ann Richards lives on. – Robert Reich, “Trumps Plot,” online 8.22.25.
And, French composer Claude Debussy, a seminal force in the music of the 20th century, was born on this day in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. His moons never grew old.
Count on it, once anyway . . .
Thursday, August 21, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . Moderate Northerlies bring the cooling trend to TulseyTown we've been holding our breath for. The 100's have gone for the season according to the weatherfeather. It's still August with mid 90's today.
Three birthdates: Count Basie was born in 1904, Red Bank, New Jersey; Christopher Robin Milne, the inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh, was born in today in 1920 London, England, the son of the children's writer A.A. Milne; and novelist Robert Stone was born on this day in 1937 Brooklyn, New York.
We carry very ancient wounds that come not from original sin but from a misunderstanding so old that we can no longer see it...We get stuck in patterns of grasping and fixating which cause the same thoughts and reactions to occur again and again and again. In this way we project our world. When we see that, even if it’s only for one second every three weeks, then we’ll naturally discover the knack of reversing this process of making things solid, the knack of stopping the claustrophobic world as we know it, putting down our centuries of baggage, and stepping into new territory. – Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart, Shambhala, 2016.
Our inherent nature is pure. All we have to do is rediscover who we really are, and that’s what the path is for. It’s that simple – Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, “Necessary Doubt,” Tricycle,
When you learn to mind your mind, you begin by allowing your thoughts and feelings to shout or cry, to throw a tantrum and have a meltdown. – Brian McLaren, “Mind Your Mind,” Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation,
Some are fortunate enough to have a local community to practice and study with. Many others walk the path alone. Lion’s Roar’s rich archive of open and non-sectarian teachings can help show the path and provide a guide to The Way. If this is of interest, do explore Lion's Roar.