01/26/2026 Monday
This morning I woke up from a strange dream. I think I was at church, trying to evangelize to a boy (looks like Latino, in his late teens) who said he turned away from the faith because of Soren Kierkegaard's idea of what is "drawn." I had no clue what he was talking about, and before I could get clarity, I woke up, forgetting of what else he said which still didn't make any sense to me in the dream. But by googling, the AI gives me this:
Søren Kierkegaard used the metaphor of an "arrow of grief" embedded in his heart to describe his ironic, melancholic existence, noting that if it were "drawn out," he would die. Additionally, he believed individuals are constantly pulled between the opposing forces of the "finite" (immediate reality) and the "infinite" (possibility and eternity).
He described how one is drawn through three spheres of existence: the aesthetic (pleasure-seeking), the ethical (duty-bound), and the religious (faith-based).
I am not sure what the dream was really about, but I would see it as a reminder to pounder upon these works of Kierkegaard, such as: The Concept of Irony, Either/Or, The Sickness Unto Death, At a Graveside (from Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions).
The snow storm from yesterday really had everyone shoveling crazy today. It's been probably 5+ years since we had to deal with such snow. I would guess it's about 14 inches high. And given this week's temperature forecast (lower than 30F) we may have to deal with eventual hardened snow ice (melt-freeze crust to solid ice) for a lengthy time. Because it's a snow day, business was slow. After helping me with the snow, Nadia decided that we go eat at our favorite cheap China Buffet, where she could also shop at Goodwill next door as I checked out Harbor Freight which is next to Goodwill.