Bombarded by coconuts . . .

Wednesday the 8th of January, 2025. It’s Tiw’s day … and here in “the Springs” of Colorado after a lovely snowfall it’s 10 degrees with a 1 degree wind-chill.  

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. — Lao Tzu

We need to overthrow ... this rotten … industrial capitalist system which breeds so much suffering…Personal “salvation” cannot be divorced from social and systemic implications. — Dorothy Day, cited by Fr. Richard Rohr, in Meditations from The Center for Action and Contemplation.  

…passing with the speed of life

drifting in circles in an eddy

joining the current again

as if the eddy were a few moments' sleep

— Jim Harrison, The Theory and Practice of Rivers, Copper Canyon Press, May 2025 (new edition)

Yield to the blessings of the flow as it gently pulls you from the eddies.

 …in the garden of gentle sanity, may you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness. — Chögyam Trungpa