OTD: Tue. 16MAY2023

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Coming to you live from Deeping St. Magma, County Gloamshire ...

Today is:
National Sea Monkey Day, National Classic Movie Day, & National BBQ Day !!!

Classical B-Days:
1822 Eduard Hille, Dutch composer/conductor
1893 Paul Amadeus Pisk, Austrian-American composer/musicologist/educator

Rock/Folk B-days:
1946 Robert Fripp, British progressive rock guitarist/composer [ group(s): King Crimson/Fripp & Eno ]
1946 Roger Earl, British drummer [ group(s): Foghat ]
1953 Richard Page, American singer/bassist [ group(s): Mr. Mister ]

WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
David Lovrien: "WRR March of the Day" march

WWotD:
essomenic ― (adj) showing things as they will be in the future.

QotD:
“[…] He let go of all things that were not himself and the mantra and the cold silence of the vigil chapel. Periodically, he got up to pace the circuit of the room, touching the wall gently beneath each god’s device, and to drink a handful of water, which, cold and slightly metallic, began to taste to him like the tranquility the Archprelate had said he should seek.

After a time, he felt a deeper rhythm, the rhythm of the stone and water, not the rhythm of his words and heartbeat. He breathed into this deeper rhythm, let it teach him a new mantra, a wordless mantra that waxed and waned, ebbed and flowed, moon and stars and clouds, river, and sun, the wordless rhythm of the earth beneath it all like the world’s own heartbeat. He laid his hands flat on the stone beneath him and listened in quiet rapture to the mantra of the world’s praying.
” ― excerpt [ vigil/chapel scene from The Coronation of Edrehasivar VII ] from The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison