Today, people in Korea and elsewhere are celebrating the birthday of the Buddha.
In England, a bright spring day. The rough winds of May have abated.
A line from John Berger: "the naming of the intolerable is itself hope" (quoted by Dan Gretton of Platform at an event on absurdity).
Earth's Climate Embraces Us All.
From the Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke:
life holds mystery for us yet. In a hundred places/we can still sense the source: a play of pure powers/that -- when you feel it -- brings you to your knees.
CH