Swiftly flows the Watercourse

It's Odin's day . . .

Re: yesterday's post brought this in today's mailbox from Mirabai Starr:

We are drifting away from the safe shores of organized religion and we are drifting in droves...we are no longer in the mood for religious language and not falling for their absolute proclamations. And yet, we are not giving up ... We may be deconstructing the institutions, but ... In increasing numbers, we are daring to name ourselves: we are spiritual but not religious.

There is no mountaintop. There is no yogi. There is only beautiful you, taking out the compost and changing the tire, paying your internet bill and submitting your business plan. The to-do list is written in a secret code. If you look closely, you will see the divine name forming in the smoke rising from the very thing you didn’t get done. Spirit is everywhere, permeating everything. – Mirabai Starr, Ordinary Mysticism.

[T]he circumstances for studying philosophy in a college or university setting are in the midst of great change, if not dying out altogether. – Joseph M Keegin

In case you were wondering this morning . . . On a “happiest” list of the 50 states, Okieland ranked 43rd.

And, immediately after last night's “debate,” Taylor Swift instagrammed her 280,000,000 (no, that's not a typo) followers that she was going to vote for Kamela Harris and Tim Walz.