Against the stream . . .

Friday, January 31, 2025 It's Freya's (Frigg's) day . . . a mid-Winter warming trend is settling on TulseyTown for the next several days.

Today is the birth date of Thomas Merton. The Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion was born in 1915 Prades, France.

Another new report: Offshore wind farms could cause significant ecosystem, economic and human health risks.

Trump may find that he is swimming against the stream. Whether he recognizes it, is another matter – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by [this] multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender ...to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence [and have our work for peace neutralized]....Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. - Thomas Merton,  Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander.