….the difficult driftwood of the Truth

….the diffiicult driftwood of the Truth— Saigyō

The Watercourse moves in only one, constant, eternal direction—toward ever more abundant and creative life. Resistance or attempts to control it are washed away like the rivers carving the Grand Canyons, like the seas creating the Great Plains, leaving behind the Great Lakes.

In the mailbox this cold January morning, dedicated by name as “Sol's Day,” a reminder that today is the 14th anniversary of the birth (1908) of Simone de Beauvoir. A philosopher equal to her lover Jean-Paul Sartre, she wrote in The Second Sex: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Some argue that single line jump started the feminist movement. I am thankful for them and the movement.