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"Embark"...
And in the twinkling of an eye, a choice,
clearly seen by the grace of pure vision,
"Oh...either be dead or not be dead..."
And in a twinkling of an eye, unhinged and unfastened,
The miracle, the passing of a threshold.
Like a baby's first breath;
the choice that is itself an impulse to life,
itself the quickening that unhinges, that unfastens, 
Embark...
Like the seaman who sets the boat in motion
by his very leap from shore.               

Teri Martin

On This Day…

World Mental Health Day (WHO)

St. Francis Borgia of Portugal: invoked against earthquakes

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O Beloved Spirit,

It is a precarious journey.
There is safety
in affirmations, in labels, in achievements, in recognition,
but there is no safety on the Way.
Affirmations, labels, achievement and recognition
get in the way of the Way
and must be set aside. 

While we think of it as
“the straight and narrow path,”
really it is a swirling spiral.
We come around to almost the same place
with almost the same insight,
only one loop in, one layer deeper. 

Take us one loop in,
one layer deeper,
that we may leave where we are behind,
until we cycle 'round again
and find that where we've been
is in tandem with where we will be. 

So in between the tension
of the outer swirl and the inner swirl
is the point of our arriving departure. 

Take us
one loop in,
one layer deeper,
where we are always at the point of our between. Amen.                  

Benjamin Martin

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On This Day…

Thanksgiving Day (Canada)

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

St. Denys: Bishop of Paris, martyred with his companions in 250

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In a wilderness...

All quests begin with death--
the death of the old,
the destruction of the baggage, 
the letting go of the acquired self.

From The Mystery of the Quest Service

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The journey for the sake of the journey. The passage for the sake of the passage. The adventure for the sake of the adventure. I must embark. Though I know neither the way nor the destination. I must embark. For a call has lifted me out of my expected course and sent me in search of what cannot be foretold. I am in deep waters, far from what I know, long in search of what I cannot know. I have heard the call. And though I am unsure as to the way and unclear as to the end -- I am resolved. I embark.  

 From The Mystery of Quest Service

On This Day…

The Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary:  Catholic recognition of the Blessed Mother in relation to the praying of the rosary

Leroi Jones, later called Amiri Baraka born in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey, died 2014: poet, actor, teacher, theater director and producer, activist and writer of: Black Music, Tales of the Out and Gone, and Somebody Blew Up America
Quotes: “God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.” “A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be an apprenticeship for freedom." “Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.”

James Whitcomb Riley born in 1849 in Greenfield, Indiana, died 1916:  known as ‘the Hoosier Poet’ and ‘the Children’s Poet,’ he is remembered for writing Little Orphan Annie and Rhymes of Childhood

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Remember the sign over the door that leads to the nanonow: "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."
Step into the unknown moment, step into the only place where life can be, where joy can be—right now.                                                                                                    

Ben Leichtling

On This Day…

Thor Heyerdahl born in 1914 in Lavik, Norway, died 2002: adventurer, ethnographer and writer of Kon Tiki and Aku Ak
Quotes: “Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.” “In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.”

St. Bruno: founder of the Carthusian Order in 1101