better with wrinkles
Life is better with wrinkles.
:- Doug.
What do we do about the high plateau? Is it only for enjoyment?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2490–The tunnel
Footprints in the Windsm # 2490
The dark and living alley
two rows of bushes tall
a tunnel behind and between
neighborhood houses
where as children
in secret we played
at life in earnest
safe from
and in
our parents’ eyes
What can we, then?
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Look into eyes
We can talk for them, of them, we can bring up their images in our words and heads. Images, visual of course, but also of taste, smell, touch, sound. What is the dignity of each individually? Can we look into this person’s eyes?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2489–When you catch a fish
Footprints in the Windsm # 2489
When you catch a fish, and release—have you changed her life for ever? Do you imagine?
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pull back sheer
I’m in love with this chapter—it is so delicate and generous I hesitate to touch it, to pull back its sheer.
:- Doug.
What comes out!
What comes out of a person!
Writers for instance:
Josh, so masterful
Yvonne, so scent-catching
David, burly bearded, so sensitive
James, locking you in
A darkened theater,
Doug, flying guessingly
Read. Hear
Rivers gushing unguessable
Under mountain ranges
:- Doug.
But always changed
“But always changed.” Can we say that about our conversations? Do we seek that?
:- Doug.
Questions for a young man
Who are you as a person? As a family? How do you fit? What is to be your role? What are you curious to find out about yourself?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2488–We don’t value
Footprints in the Windsm # 2488
That we don’t raise our voices to his antics testifies against us that we don’t value, don’t reflect on, don’t exercise, our, nor our fellow humans, freedoms.
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effect morphs
One effect of conversation is to change the speed of our thinking, especially when compared to thinking alone. It slows and speeds. Also it extends thinking in breadth and direction, so it encompasses more. We can morph these effects into purposes and practices.
:- Doug.
Understandable
We can tell a pre-story about the eleventh generation: they are not predictable but are understandable.
:- Doug.
Be good, descendant
How do we put good quality into ancestoring except by the goodness of our efforts as descendants to our ancestors?
:- Doug.
