by Susan | Oct 4, 2022 | inspiration, poem
Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listen to the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas, how peeling potatoes can be a form of prayer. She took questions on how not to feel lost in the dark After lunch she distributed worksheets that covered ways to...
by Susan | Oct 1, 2022 | inspiration, poem
On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons. The equivalent weight of how much railway it would take to get a third of the way to the sun. It’s the collective weight of every animal on earth. Times three. Six billion tons...
by Susan | Sep 30, 2022 | folktales, inspiration
Now you must know that a Town Mouse once upon a time went on a visit to his cousin in the country. He was rough and ready, this cousin, but he loved his town friend and made him heartily welcome. Beans and bacon, cheese and bread, were all he had to offer, but he...
by Susan | Sep 30, 2022 | inspiration, poem
Although most are totally naked and too scant for even the slightest color and although they have no voice that I’ve ever heard for cry or song, they are, nevertheless, more than mirage, more than hallucination, more than falsehood. They have confronted sulfuric...
by Susan | Sep 30, 2022 | birthdays, inspiration
September 30, 1207 Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.” September 30, 1928 Elie Wiesel “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence...
by Susan | Sep 28, 2022 | birthdays, inspiration
September 28, 1839 Frances E. Willard “This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the...
