Equinimity, duality, reality . . .

Today is Freya's day...and it's still foggy/rainy in Okieland …the mailbox this morning held notes regarding our human attempts at clearing our self-made fog. Perhaps Douglas MacArthur, Ellen DeGeneres, Jon Stewart, Allan Watts and Richard Rohr have this in common. Read on . . .

Its the birth date of Douglas MacArthur. The WWII General was born on this date in 1880 Little Rock, Arkansas

Ellen DeGeneres celebrates her 66th birthday today. The comedienne was born today in 1958 Metairie, Louisiana

And, In case you missed it … Jon Stewart is returning to the Daily Show.

Now for Alan Watts . . . By reducing religion to propositions, and testing the faithful on their scriptural knowledge – how can you be a Christian if Richard Dawkins quotes the Bible better than you do? … our contemporary conversations about culture and religion often seem ruled by ‘oughts’ – intellectual, moral and political. From Watts [and Franciscan Richard Rohr], we learn that desire may be the royal road to truly experiencing reality as gift, of the most recklessly generous kind…Either everything is religious, or nothing is: this [is their] message, and it may be the only basis on which people will consider religion worth bothering with beyond the 2020s. == Christopher Harding, “On knowing who he was,” in Aeon online, January 26, 2024.

Watts, BTW, would be 109 years old this month. He was born on January 6, 1915 in the countryside near London, England.

The challenge of equanimity in the face of duality. – – Alex Worsnip writing in Aeon. 

Aim to "add in," not "fit in." Belonging in the workplace, sustainably promoting diversity, equity and inclusion and opportunity— and why you should.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. – General Douglas MacArthur