Thursday Thirsting

Yet another dry, sunny day in Stanhope in Weardale, where it's a joy to wake up at any time dear readers of Wear and Dao,  none less than today, Thursday, 21.04. 2022, thirsting for knowledge of the numinous Nature of Reality, a mystery indeed! Reading Kate Atkinson's book "Life After Life" surely examines Life and its myriad meanings, a mystery examined many times in Wear and Dao ... Bringing us yet again the question of Eternity and what is meant by it, and anyway why question anything at all when Philosophy clearly points to the numinous?

Today Marta came to lunch from Corbridge in Northumberland  with her two boys and later Gillian the Angel of Stanhope in Weardale County Durham, arrived for philosophical discourse. This all taking place , coincidentally, in the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, wittily renamed ANOBS, a step away from National Park status, resisted by County Councils who see their power undermined! What is it with these bloody Authorities that they feel the need to control everything? Some may say it's the Freemasons, others just Fear of losing the control they yearn for , and psychology addresses that existential fear in deep philosopy. How on earth can we unearth the fear felt by the needy without Jung and others?

Krishnamurti addressed these questions of course  in his insightful books, and coincidentally Marta is a new student of Jiddu Krishnamurti and has been busy collecting his books, since she has been thirsting for knowledge most of her adult life. Come to that dear readers of Wear and Dao, who hasn't? Gillian who arrived soon after Marta departed certainly is keen to increase her knowledge and continued the philosophical  discussion.

So, as you see dear readers of Wear and Dao, there's rarely a dull moment here as visitors call for the delicious food served up and the wisdom shared with those choosing to call over to share philosophical teachings including Krishnamurti. Gillian by the way dear readers was supposed to leave with volume 1 of the 13 Bucket Books however was distracted by the nurse with a present for her husband,  Simnel Cake!