Open to wonder . . .

Sunday, January 11, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . Northerlies make for cold mornings this week. Sunshine and upper 40's this afternoon in TulseyTown.

How do you open the heart? Start to love that which you can love, and just keep expanding. You love a tree, you love a river, you love a leaf, you love a flower, you love a cat, you love a human. Go deeper and deeper into that love, until you love that which is the source of the light behind all of it. – Ram Dass

The American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton was born on this day in1755 Charlestown on the island of Nevis, British West Indies.

“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” – Alexander Hamilton, “The Farmer Refuted,” (pamphlet) February, 1775, in New York.

Our power, our courage.-- Robert Reich, Sunday Thought, 1.11.26

Science often affirms what were for centuries the highly suspect intuitions of the Scriptures and mystics. We now take it for granted that everything in the universe is deeply connected and linked, even light itself, which interestingly is the first act of creation. – Fr. Richard Rohr, “A Brilliant Start,” in Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 1.11.26

Maybe the essence of faith is dumb childlike wonder. – Garrison Keillor, Watching the Ball Drop, 1.7.26

Wonder

This is the season of gift giving. It is also the season of wonder. They seem to go hand in hand

I hold my cup with both my two hands

blessed with the sensations of touch

taste, warmth and the gifts returned

from blessings offered to all beings

and to all things forever past,

infinitely present, eternally future.

Here there is no fear. Love

makes of the cold my friend,

water feeds my soul

ignorant of its innocence

saying “yes” to everything

wondering about my sense of wonder

at my blessings. — jab