. . . the times, they are a-changin'

Apropos for Odin's day, this is Bob Dylan's 82nd birthday. The singer, song-writer, poet was born Robert Zimmerman in 1941 Duluth, Minnesota. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2016. The official home page.

Enough is apparently not enough for Der TrumpenFührer.

There is no such thing as one-sided liberation. – Elizabeth Gilbert

The culture of separation and divisiveness we have created for ourselves manifests in that feeling of “stuckness” you may be experiencing. It can be hard to engage in a transformation into something other than what we are inside of – like the fish in water becoming aware of water – opening up to the something we can't imagine. Yet.

Another aspect of this conditioning is the sense of not having enough time to deal with the busyness of everything and there's so many “things.” Our energies get depleted as we scatter it. Even our immune system becomes vulnerable. Our relationships become fragmented and disconnected. We lose that sense of belonging, contradicting and growing at odds with the fact of interconnectedness. Cheating and affairs in all its forms become temptations if not realities. We create our distractions to keep from looking at the water which is ALWAYS moving. Perhaps we need to take a breath and tend however briefly to what might be beyond the “human-centric,” fear rhetoric focus pushed at us, particularly by conservative politicians and the “two sided prism” of most media. There are birds singing in the rain outside my window as I write this.

Come gather 'round people, wherever you roam

and admit that the waters around you have grown,

and accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone.

If your time to you is worth saving

then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone

for the times, they are a-changin' — Bob Dylan