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Maybe we share our story also with the community of ancestors.

:- Doug.

Once I resolved to hear a larger world to let it penetrate me change me. This is to share some wonders.

:- Doug.

Sacred geometry, cartography, survey: to see the shifting center of our meaning across centuries.

:- Doug.

Proposal: The meaning of your story is the effect it has on humanicity in 11th generation adults.

:- Doug.

Once we have communion across three centuries, the center of our meaning has shifted and humanicity has changed.

:- Doug.

Poetry seems the way of mysticism, of opening mysticism to people, near a parabolic manner. Opening the intellect, yes, and the metaphors, yes, and still there is more. Mysticism is beyond method and ways. Mysticism is about a higher humanicity and about wrestling our way there.

No straight road up the mountain this. Nor is there any. There will be setbacks. There will be effort, blood, body odor, tears, and mud. There is no there to reach. Instead it is right doing, and wrestling with things that are also right doings.

:- Doug.

In imitative language is meaning in the words their rhythm and arrhythmia in their flow and halting.

:- Doug.

The rhythm of the words, the meaning in their onomatopoeia, our feeling as they rake our tongues, as they reverberate within our skulls, their echoing through millennia of ancestors, the feelings they evoke, the feelings that evoked these words: study, study well, study hear, study with ear and beyond mind, study with body, study with miles and years.

:- Doug.

Ultimately we teach more than facts, more than metaphors, more than ways.

Let us aim for burly questions to wrestle into the long nights.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1965

Have been thinking that I learned some things this last few days, and most of it has been non consciously received, nor can it be expressed. It will ooze out during the days and weeks ahead. Expect some difference in depths and in ways to greet the world.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1964

Our message is against numbness.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1963

As we grow older, the more idio each of our syncracies.

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Our stories might well challenge our hearers—intellectually, metaphorically, universally.

:- Doug.

Meaning is only between and among people.

:- Doug.

What is meaning? Depth?

:- Doug.

How do stories travel? How do memes travel? How does mysticism travel?

:- Doug.

Your story can change the lives of adult grandchildren. But not the story you’re telling. And not the way you’re telling it.

:- Doug.

Retell each other’s story. Find its other paths.

:- Doug.

Story is invitation. Story can be declined. Story is inexhaustible.

:- Doug.

Trust grandchildren. That is all. Trust the story to grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Each one’s story touches the universal. Microcosm is macrocosm. We owe the grandchildren of humanity our most soul-wrenching story. Just one. This one.

:- Doug.

Can you let them learn a lesson you did not intend?

:- Doug.

In these covid times
aren’t we starved
for meaning-finding conversation?
Even in non-covid times
aren’t we ever?

:- Doug.