Wild Imagination

It's Freya's day . . . in her mailbox, several reminders that The Way is past, present, and future all at once.

Just because a myth is four thousand years old doesn't mean it's a healthy one and can't be retold. What if there was a world before words? A world where forgiveness was not something earned, but as ubiquitous as air ,,. infusing every day, every waking hour . . . – Sophie Strand, in The Flowering Wand.

We think of the great teachers who shared their liberating visions with us – often at great cost, even to their lives – as if they are no longer here. Yet our physicists tell us, as have those mystics of the past, that we are all constantly interconnected. Even our thoughts – past and present. We can choose to deny this, at the same time we have been called to deny our denial. Those past teachers now have no body but yours. We are never not in transformation.

The action of a single person can and has changed the world. One example: Today in 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Afterwards, a 381-day boycott ended segregation on Montgomery’s buses, and started the modern civil rights movement.

Speaking of singularities, there are several birthdays of note: Woody Allen was born today in 1935 New York City; Richard Pryor was born in 1940 Peoria, Illinois ; and Bette Midler was born in 1945 Honolulu.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
― Mary Oliver, Wild Geese, Dream Work; Bloodaxe Books (2004).