A softer chaos

Sol is nowhere to be found this morning in Northern Okieland. We're at 0º in TulseyTown with a goodly snowfall forecasted for this afternoon along with Northerly wind-chill at 25º below zero. Reminiscent of my times in Maine. That said, there were a few items in the not-yet-frozen-shut mailbox:

The Boeing debacle gets even uglier, forcing the airline industry to confront a question they don't want to face: Is it really safe to fly?

Another tough question: Has there ever been a “fair fight” in history?

Today is the birth date of Hugh Lofting. The author of the Dr.Dolittle novels was born 138 years ago on this date in 1886 Maidenhead, Berkshire, England.

Guarding softness is strength. The mutual arising of opposites is everywhere to be found and is central to all forms of energy...The mutually-dependent duality of yin yang sits atop of an empty circle known as tai chi, the ultimate reality, the emptiness from which the phenomenal world instantiates...Nature, when unimpeded, brings opposites into a sensitive order. This is the foundational cosmic intelligence, the Tao, the force pulling polarities into tenuous balance. – Jeff Krasno

There are lessons to be learned from the dharma of snow. Among them we discover that We cannot find the unconditioned out in the world. We can only know it in the heart.

The chaos of snow

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creates an ordered landscape

in the same way our brains

find sense in a graphic metaphor

and beauty in a snow-filled woodland.

– JB