Coming together at the guest house.
Sunday, January 4, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . forecasts for TulseyTown indicate Southerlies and mostly cloudy conditions as a warming trend settles into the are all week. Mid 50's today, 70's mid week, turning cooler again by the weekend. Mornings continue cold.
Only when you do not strive for enlightenment will you have it. – Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, “Just Sit as Yourself.”
Today is the birth date of Sir Isaac Newton, born in 1643 Woolsthorpe, England.
Doris Kearns Goodwin is 83 today. The Pulitzer Prize biographer was born in 1943 Brooklyn, New York.
The French Educator Louis Braille was born on this day in 1809 Coupvray, France. Blind from birth he invented the Braille system of reading by touch.
Irish-American Jesuit Zen Master Robert Kennedy was one of the first American Catholic priests to be installed as a Zen teacher in the U.S. The documentary “Are We One” traces his 90-year interfaith journey. A most worthy hour.
. . . just when we need to come together, we see ourselves fracturing and retreating into our opposite corners of isolation, our little echo chambers, where we only hear what we want to hear, which often is the opposite of what we need to hear. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Falling Apart, Coming Together, in Meditations at the Center for Action and Contemplation. 1.4.26
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes.
Because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
-- Rumi