Archive for December, 2012

Brave enough to eschew aggression

Brave enough to eschew aggression,
Be

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 30th, 2012 | No Comments »

I sing of you

When I sing with beauty
I sing of you

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 30th, 2012 | No Comments »

When someone is dying

When someone is dying
There’s a land out beyond hope
Where help & despair & hope & love
& all the rest
Can meet
We can do one next right thing
Even if the right thing
Cannot be known

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 30th, 2012 | No Comments »

Our

Our inviting, freeing, calling home….

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 30th, 2012 | No Comments »

Direct your days a little less

Direct your days a little less
Discover the more that’s here for you

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 30th, 2012 | No Comments »

flitting, chirping

A little bird
flitting, chirping
at me,
meeting
divinity is

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 29th, 2012 | No Comments »

Who gathers here?

The people who see they can be in charge gather in counsel together.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 29th, 2012 | No Comments »

What expanding must you do?

My idealism is about conversation
—something small and every day—
but in its very pervasiveness
is bigger than me
so this is the expanding I must do

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 29th, 2012 | No Comments »

The end of it all?

At the end of it all
can we say we’ve reached
the end of it all?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 29th, 2012 | No Comments »

Are we but producers & consumers?

Are we but
producers and consumers
ever choosing the
cosmetic over the cosmic,
avoiding intimacy,
vulnerability,
& largeness?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 29th, 2012 | No Comments »

breath breathing us?

You are the breath within us—
the breath breathing us?
the breathing through whom we walk?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 28th, 2012 | No Comments »

Is there anybody alive in dying?

Is there anybody alive in dying?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 28th, 2012 | No Comments »

Will you be alive in your dying?

Will you be alive in your dying?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 28th, 2012 | No Comments »

“There will be time later”

“There will be time later”
we thoughtlessly believe
to live our out higher intentions
to love, to dream, to act
& then the car spins on an icy patch

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 28th, 2012 | No Comments »

No, not old school

No, not old school:
human school

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 27th, 2012 | No Comments »

away from the killing

Children running away
profound things all about us
away from the killing
we cannot see it all
children are crying
it all we cannot take in
immersed are they
and we
souls asked only to gather

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 27th, 2012 | No Comments »

to parent a baby

It takes 40 years and counting
to parent a baby
& every babe
requires of us
to walk a path
new in this world

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 27th, 2012 | No Comments »

The real cost of dreams

The real cost of dreams
is not bills peeled from a roll
but the drip-drop, drip-drop
pouring out of our lives

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 27th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1293–Ubuntu

Footprints in the Windsm # 1293

Sharing giving helpful
even loving
is how I experience the world
Enormous
doing what it wants
filled with people who help
& make it friendly
listservs for lawyers listservs for CPAs
software forums
stoplights to smooth traffic flow
court clerks supermarket checkout people
kindly older folk
surly burly road workers
delivery people
business owners
bosses employees clergy
nurses doctors butchers bakers
rains sun winds fire thunder
even if they don’t know it
helping easing
making it all work
for this there is an African word
ubuntu


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 26th, 2012 | No Comments »

Not how we respond

Sandy Hook is not for me a question of how to respond: we must mourn, we must keep silence, we must respect.

It is a question of what is at root, what is my role, our role in the massacre? What have we accepted into our lives, did not raise our voices about, that made this possible?

Violence in video: games, television, movies. Violence is in our culture.

Separation everywhere: failure to ask how a neighbor or acquaintance is doing, one person per car, people in a group at the restaurant with their attention buried in an electronic gadget, all in the face of more people around us every day. Seeing others as objects standing in our way, rather than the path to our own souls.

Guns and mental illness: yes, these things contributed. But why? Were we so concerned with individual desires and avoiding contact with humans who had a “condition” that we forgot our own humanity was at stake? To respond only to guns and mental illness now would be to keep our response at surface level. Can we reach deep within so we find ways to reach out, to make ourselves vulnerable, to be human with the humans around us?

What do we choose now: violence, separation, or something that contributes to our pain; or vulnerability and not knowing and humanity? Can we come home to our whole selves?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 26th, 2012 | No Comments »

What do we want to create together?

What do we want to create together? In this community, and around the question of end of life caring conversations?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 26th, 2012 | No Comments »

The fullness of living

The fullness of living
the mystery of meeting
the embrace of breath taken away
tears & toil & dancing:
these are the essence, yes?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 26th, 2012 | No Comments »

close to you

Friend, I want to stay close to you today, close to your peace and your silence. Let things flow over and around me, a pillow in the stream, sometimes a vee, sometimes an island, rock or otherwise.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 26th, 2012 | No Comments »
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