Daily Signet

The journey for the sake of the journey. The passage for the sake of the passage. The adventure for the sake of the adventure. I must embark. Though I know neither the way nor the destination. I must embark. For a call has lifted me out of my expected course and sent me in search of what cannot be foretold. I am in deep waters, far from what I know, long in search of what I cannot know. I have heard the call. And though I am unsure as to the way and unclear as to the end -- I am resolved. I embark.  

 From The Mystery of Quest Service

On This Day…

The Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary:  Catholic recognition of the Blessed Mother in relation to the praying of the rosary

Leroi Jones, later called Amiri Baraka born in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey, died 2014: poet, actor, teacher, theater director and producer, activist and writer of: Black Music, Tales of the Out and Gone, and Somebody Blew Up America
Quotes: “God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.” “A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be an apprenticeship for freedom." “Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.”

James Whitcomb Riley born in 1849 in Greenfield, Indiana, died 1916:  known as ‘the Hoosier Poet’ and ‘the Children’s Poet,’ he is remembered for writing Little Orphan Annie and Rhymes of Childhood