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 30, 2022 | interfaith calendar, Uncategorized
October 4: St Francis Day / Blessing of the Animals – Christian October 4: Navaratri Ends – Hindu October 5: Yom Kippur – Judaism October 6: St. Thomas Day – Orthodox Christian October 7: Mawlid an-Nabi – Islam October 10: Sukkot begins – Judaism October 16:...
by Susan | Sep 29, 2022 | birthdays
September 29, 1547 Miguel de Cervantes “In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.” September 29, 1864 Miguel de Unamuno “My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I’m not selling bread; I’m selling...
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...
by Susan | Sep 27, 2022 | birthdays, inspiration
September 27, 1722 Samuel Adams “It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” September 27, 1898 Clementine Paddleford “Never grow a wishbone,...
