Crossing the Rubicon

In the mailbox this cold, Monday morning, a reminder...

On this day in 49 BCE, Julius Caesar, after a huge series of victories in Gaul, led his army across the Italian border river Rubicon in defiance of a Senate order to stand down. Five years later, as Emperor, he was assassinated.

"In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship — be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles — is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.” – David Foster Wallace.

You gotta serve somebody. – Bob Dylan

The Watercourse knows exactly what it is doing.