Choosing where we put our attention is an often overlooked superpower. On yesterday's equinox, earth balanced daylight and starlight. Yesterday too, I learned a new word, rage-bait, which I hope knowing of can become protection from. Life is too precious for rage, yet if we are attentive to the world around us, outrage might seem a reasonable response. Another response, CURIOSITY, can buffer the baiting, however, and send us first to deeper research; from there,  we can choose ways for any remaining outrage to move us toward helpful actions in community.

Choosing to bring the Acoustic Burro back to the page is an invocation of the power of our choices—so many ways we each enter the world, moment by moment. Today, the Burro brays in celebration of Sun Day, the worldwide honoring of our planet’s very own star, whose brightness and warmth was reflected in music and art and sharing of pathways into the transition to clean and renewable energy for a thriving future. One of the many celebrants who contributed a drawing for the communal collection is renowned climate activist Xiye Batista, cofounder and director of the youth-led Re-Earth Initiative.  In this photo from the day’s events, the colors and joyful smiles of traditional dancers in front of a solar panel array caught my eye, and the swirl of full skirts sweeps my imagination into forward movement, a momentum that pulls humankind toward balance, toward finding ways to be better reciprocal relatives among other planetary beings.

Yesterday this bee visited sunflower blossoms in our yard. Today, migrating goldfinches bring their saffron selves to perch and share: energies, movement, journeys. They help me choose wisely. They bid me to share what I have: a bit of space-time, some words. Where can your attention take you, and what imagined future can your shared words help us create?