The Light of Taylor Swift

Appropriately, it's Freya's day . . .

The miracle of Hanukkah isn't only that the oil that should have lasted for one night lasted for eight. It's that someone looked at that bit of oil and lit it anyway, for those who needed to see it shine. – Mark Hetfield

What does Keven McCarthy's resignation mean for the flow of the Potomac?

Will we permit the destruction of American democracy on our watch? – Heather Cox Richardson.

At a convention of union leaders in Columbus, Ohio on this day in 1886, the American Federation of Labor was founded.

"The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig iron." -- Samuel Gompers

Taylor Swift is not swimming against the stream. To the contrary, Time Magazine's Person of the Year, is clearly in the flow of The Way, navigating by her own North Star. The farther righters just don't seem to get it.

The mystic is not a special human being – every human being is a special kind of mystic. – David Steindl-Rast.