The least about-you thing
It's Thor's day . . . a sunny, cold winter day in Okieland, but warm enough for an afternoon walk . . .
Shooting at reality doen't really make it go away, no matter the size nor type of the weapon.
Enlightenment is … the least about-you thing that’s ever happened. – Joan Sutherland,
Let that which cannot be named remain unnamed. Know that a simple and singular invitation has been extended: Observe Its quiet presence. It's there in that pause between these words, between your in and out breaths. In the midst of our addictive “doing” the pause opens the space of “being” from which all creativity flows.
Create a Clearing
Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world
so worth of rescue.
Finding balance . . .
It's Odin's day . . .
Obstacles do not block the Way, they are the Way. – Zen Proverb
Speaking of obstacles: our upcoming elections may be full of them. Joyce Vance's Civil Discorse issued a warning. And Heather Cox Richardson outlined specifics.
Birthdays today . . .
J.R.R. Tolkien was born on this date in 1892 Bloemfontein, South Africa.
In 1929, Italian film director Sergio Leone was born in Rome.
And Mel Gibson turns 68 today. The actor, director, producer was born on this day in 1956 Peekskill, New York
I missed this one: Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue was born on New Year's Day in the west Ireland area of 1956 Connemara and County Clare.
For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
As water takes whatever shape it is in,
So free may you be about who you become.
As time remains free of all that it frames,
May your mind stay clear of all it names.
May your prayer of listening deepen enough
to hear in the depths the laughter of god.― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings, Doubleday, 2008.
Meaning is necessarily a verb . . .
It's Tew's day … and the sun is eventual here in TulseyTown . . .
Peace in the New Year: It isn't given to us. We have to give it to everybody. And, obviously, if it doesn't exist in us, we can't give it to anyone. Every moment by moment instant is the beginning of a New Year.
Isaac Asimov was born on this date in 1920 Petrovichi, Russia. https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/isaac-asimov
For any consistent formal system (for example, mathematical and logical), there will be truths that cannot be demonstrated within the system by its own axioms and rules of inference. Hence any consistent system will inevitably be incomplete. There will always be certain truths in the system that require,some methods of proof that transcend the system... mathematics itself is infinite and new discoveries will always be possible. – Kurt Gödel cited by Alexander Englert in Aeon online, 2 January 2024.
In the depth of winter,
I finally learned
that within me there lay
an invincible summer.