Metta

What is metta ? In short, an attitude of unconditional kindness directed toward everyone and everything. Check it out and read on . . .

In Thor's day’s mailbox: Linguist and social/political philosopher Noam Chomsky was 94 yesterday, born in Philadelphia (12/7/1928). He first rose to fame with his theory that humans have an instinctual tendency to develop languages, the same way that birds have an instinct to fly. Chomsky retired as Professor Emeritus from MIT after 45 years there. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky

Today's birth anniversaries include: Roman poet Horace, born in Apulia, Italy (65 B.C.E.); James Thurber, born in Columbus, Ohio (1894); and writer Bill Bryson, born in Des Moines, Iowa (1951).

These are the times of Tiny Tim's blessing, shared and extended throughout the world through the pen of Charles Dickens.

“Then Bob proposed 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us' Which all his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one' said Tiny Tim, the last of all. . . . It was aways said of Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One.” – Charles Dickens (“A Christmas Carol”)

Love is like a living organism, an active force-field upon which we can rely, from which we can draw, and we allow to pass through us. – Richard Rohr