
Week of 2/9-14/2026: Saintliness & Satire in Troubled Times
This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember
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This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember

We have been meditating on Leonard Cohen’s and then Ernest Becker’s understandings of holiness or saintliness. Why? Because evil is so present in our news

Ernest Becker sees religion today as failing to open up our perception based on “celebrating God’s creation.” He praises indigenous religions for doing exactly that.

We continue our exegesis of Leonard Cohen’s observations on saintliness. The saint is grounded and earthy and following the contours of the earth—not angel-like and
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