More than a pair of docs . . .
Odin's day's mailbox is filled with paradox :
An unprecedented flu strain is killing birds and other mammals with human potential possible, but not imminent.
Because paradox undermines dual thinking at its root, the dualistic mind immediately attacks paradox as weak thinking or confusion, somehow separate from and inferior to hard logic. The modern phenomenon of fundamentalism displays an almost complete incapacity to deal with paradox, and shows how much we’ve regressed. Today the church is trying to catch up to what mystics have always known, and great scientists now teach as well. – Fr. Richard Rohr
God made a dictator. . . the Lincoln Project.
Today is William Stafford's birth date. A poet's poet, he was born in 1914 Hutchinson, Kansas.
What's in My Journal
… Pages you know exist
but you can't find them. Someone's terribly
inevitable life story, maybe mine.
– William Stafford, “What's in My Journal” from Crossing Unmarked Snow. University of Michigan Press.
The Way
cannot be told, Lao Tsu told,
Paints but leaves no trace.
With no intent, wanders.
Searches but finds not,
finds but does not use nor save.
Knows no thing, knows everything.
Silent,
always speaking.
Tone deaf, it creates symphonies.
Always learning teaching
the ways of life's winds.
North Star, Southern Cross.
– JB