from a neighboring social:

from some social somewhere

cats and moods (from another social)

In a 2015 essay on Arnold Toynbee ("Humanist among machines"), historian Ian Beacock writes:
" What are the humanities for in a technological age? For Toynbee, the answer was clear: to save us from ourselves."
<https://aeon.co/essays/arnold-toynbee-shines-a-light-on-the-humanities-role-today>

some #cosopoetry /via Maya C. Popa: "Ask the moon. / Ask what it has witnessed."

A recent book by Jacqueline Rose, titled The Plague: Living Death in Our Times (<https://worldcat.org/en/title/1374903661>) has this gem on page 82:
"There is a limit to how much we can psychically tolerate. This remains the fundamental insight of psychoanalysis, never more needed than today.”

from a neighbor social:
Alexander @[email protected]

Please do not send in any further clowns. We are at full clown capacity

posted yesterday on a neighbor social:-- the protest sign is one of the best
https://mastodon.social/@Fparianen/111063154843791414

today's #cosopoetry offering:

an ode to the news of the day

The Burning Man,
A Burning Bush,
My burning desires,
And a burning wish ....

from a neighboring social: MostlyHarmless @[email protected]

I asked the librarian if they had any books on paranoia.
She whispered, "They're right behind you!"

From Joy Haro, Conflict Resolutions for Holy Beings (https://worldcat.org/en/title/1125172714), page 74:

We all have helpers in seen and unseen realms.
Give them something to do.
Otherwise, they will grow inattentive with boredom.
They can clean junk from your mind,
Find the opening note for the chorus of a song,
Or give a grandchild a safe path through the dark.
They will not give you winning numbers at the casino,
Wash your dishes, or take out an enemy.
Thank them.
Feed them once in a while.

it really disheartens me to hear politicians deny the impacts of climate warming, and some of them the warming itself. but the media reporting on these events act as if they will not be impacted by the lack of government action on climate change leaves me bewildered, when i am not downright frightened. </mood>

this showed up in a neighboring social the other day and, well, no explanation needed ...
https://mstdn.social/@lakelady/110924570759079122

some Rachel Carson for today:
Dr. Laurel Stanley; @[email protected]
toot link: <https://mstdn.social/@LaurelStandley/110891236479212328>

Rachel Carson's words from seventy years ago still resonate mightily.

"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself."

- Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us, Revised edition(1961), page xii

#cosopoetry for Sunday:
Love Like Salt - BY LISEL MUELLER

It lies in our hands in crystals
too intricate to decipher

It goes into the skillet
without being given a second thought

It spills on the floor so fine
we step all over it

We carry a pinch behind each eyeball
It breaks out on our foreheads

We store it inside our bodies
in secret wineskins

At supper, we pass it around the table
talking of holidays and the sea.

Link: <https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42468/love-like-salt>

ah, life, and its little bridges:

from the neighborhood socials: https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/110863318771869939

a #cosopoetry offering:

I wanted to hide so that I could get busy

at my real work, which was a sort of wooing

of distant parts of myself.

- Alice Munro

/via Maya C. Popa <https://substack.com/@mayacpopa/note/c-21828609>

making a selection using my Apple mouse is a "click-or-miss" proposition. More often than not, that clicking sound I hear does *not* result in a selection. </whining>