Ways of The Way

In the mailbox this Satyrs' Day...

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace–only that it meets us where we are but doesn’t leave us where it found us. – Anne Lamott

“On June 4, 1989, the Chinese people shed their blood and died for democracy.” – message written on a wall in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 33 years ago today.

The United States Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution on this date in 1919. The amendment, then ratified by three quarters of the states as required by that same Constitution, declared women had the right to vote. It became the law of the land in August of 1920.

And, today is the 94th anniversary of the birth of “Dr. Ruth” Westheimer.

Travel is a meditation because we must constantly inquire: Where am I? What is this? And this? The jolt of foreignness can spur awakening—flooding us with change, that mark of existence we often don’t notice in our daily lives. The truth is, we’re always traveling, always in flux. We just don’t realize it most of the time. – Anita Feng

Returning home, we discover the truth of the Watercourse Way: it’s impossible to enter the same river twice, yet it is in all ways, always. And always we are being steered into the stream of being, and becoming.