Good Morning, Digital Neighbors! Happy Saturday to all you Vagabonds and Wanderers that traverse the Rubin Report, putter around on Phetasy and drop by for some morning mojo at Padre’s. Whoever you are and wherever you find yourself, I hope you are off to the beginning of a great day, or one is already underway. If you are struggling, burdened or troubled, may peace and light find away to lighten your day. Know of my prayers for you, unknown neighbor. While I may not know you or your situation, know of my neighborly concern for you.
“The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn't ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know.” ― Elizabeth Coatsworth
For the last two years I have been in Ozark country, and I have come to enjoy all the rolling hills and valleys, the numerous creeks, streams, small lakes and the limestone popping out of the ground everywhere you turn. It has been a dry last part of summer so I suspect our Autumn foliage will be muted. Time will tell. It always does. For the good, the bad and the ugly on the Ozarks, here is a link. Have a great day my friends and may Autumn bless you with some surprises today!
https://festival.si.edu/blog/ozarks-introduction
Golden Autumn - JSB Co - Unsplash
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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Quite apart from the fact that I utterly admire, even love, her, this is the best possible response to an idiot, who, in his defense, asked a pretty good question.
https://x.com/TBifford/status/2087992591279407133/video/1?s=61
The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
