Wisdom as a guide on The Way

In the Wednesday mailbox . . .Odin was never one to shy away from speaking his wisdom . . .

Mary Oliver's lovely collection of Dog Songs contains a short story about her dog Percy. Percy, it seems, as a new pup, ate a copy of the Bhagavad Gita. Thereafter she referred to him/her as “the wisest of little dogs.”

Sophie Strand asks: “Who is the monster of today's legends?”

. . . let's be clear: This is a story about serving justice and repairing our democracy. Either there's rule of law or there's not. Either we are defined by a system of justice that holds the guilty accountable or we aren't. Either we have a democracy that limits the use of violence to define our public life and the rights of our citizens or we have a country devolving into authoritarianism in which a strongman leader can employ fear and intimidation to get and keep power.

After the exhausting years of Trump—including over 30,000 documented lies, dozens of discernible criminal acts, and a near-daily effort to spur a climate of chaos and a growing appetite for hatred and carnage—this is a moment to declare: We will not be held hostage once again by a tyrannical minority or its leaders that are abusing their power to undermine democracy and democratic institutions, permanently break peoples' belief in justice and the rule of law, and drive a deeper wedge between Americans with grievance and outrage. – Steven Beschloss

From the Gita:

All that we are is a result of what we have thought in the past. All that our future holds will unfold as a result of what we are thinking in each and every present moment-by-moment.

Think fear and violence, you will have both.

Think justice, you will have justice.