The “new monk” next to you . . .
It's the first Moon Day after the Autumnal Equinox . . . and already temperatures are dropping in Okieland and Northerlies are bringing rain to TulseyTown...
It's the time of year when many of us turn attention toward a deeper kind of monasticism of our own.
A “new” monk seeks to expand monastic wisdom into the wider personal and social circle of our lives, while also fiercely protecting the centering point of silence and solitude regardless of the presence or absence of any religious affiliation....single, married, partnered, celibate, etc. – committed to the universal mystical heart and to the spirituality of nonviolence. – Beverly Lanzetta
Creatives – all “new monks” in their way – birthdays
Bruce Springsteen turns 75 today. The rock icon was born in 1949, Freehold, New Jersey. A present world tour begun in March ends this November.
It's the birth date of John Coltrane. The jazz saxophonist was born in 1926, Hamlet, North Carolina
And, Ray Charles was born on this day in 1930, Albany, Georgia
They will ask you what you have produced. Say to them, except for Love, what else can a Lover produce? – Rumi