dark pregnant
By dark I mean pregnant.
:- Doug.
By dark I mean lasting—into the furthest reaches of the generations before and the generations after.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2519–Share before
Footprints in the Windsm # 2519
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before it is perfect
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This reading is cornucopia
Read a book when you get it. Read it again, you get something new. Read a person again with curiosity (and some commonality) and you give to each other riches overflowing.
:- Doug.
Equally inviting
Black contains, absorbs all colors. White reflects, unleashes all colors. Equally brilliant, equally inviting.
:- Doug.
This language is invitational
Clean language is invitational. If we are to approach two as one, we need to invite the dark and scary (two as one is losing self, letting loose a monster unknown), beyond which is where Rich lives.
Ultimately Rich and Dark are probably inseparable. Probably every human is so from any other. Because each is other/holy to the first. To approach rich is to find dark—hidden, unknown, and just a little frightening. To approach dark is to find riches and possibilities.
:- Doug.
Our eyes are black, black
To those generations we cannot see, our eyes are black, black. But O: we see thro’.
:- Doug.
Let go of each other
If all fear is the fear of death, what does that say of our conversations becoming one? Let go—over and over—let go. Like my “I accept death,” we are asking ourselves to let go of each other of where/when we are, of our little circles of light over our table, to find what is in that dark, out there and then. Letting go is getting out of its way—life’s way—we must die! Scared? I am. And eager.
:- Doug.
Attention and us
Looking at and to one another keeps our attention and intention on her. Now we feel the need to pull us to others, holy OTHERS.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2518–Named my stroke “Beneficent.”
Footprints in the Windsm # 2518
I chose to name my stroke “Beneficent.” It is good for me. I take it as part of my life—integral to me, same as the day after a child is born, the new parents cannot imagine, cannot remember, a time they were not a three. Indeed, in some real way perhaps, they were always on that trajectory. So I have always been headed for my stroke, and my life after. And you and your friend have always been leaning into one another.
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Momentarily happy accident
I have not lived there. It comes upon me as a happy accident, but I could hope to live as if letting go of one bar of the jungle gym going from momentarily happy accident to momentarily happy accident.
:- Doug.
Next generations downtrodden
It could be that those who come after and after us may be the downtrodden, the poor, the defeated. Be them, with them, thro’ them.
:- Doug.
Living oddly
Here we have a letting go of fear, letting be of death, of catching what they have, of being different, of living oddly, publicly for all to see.
:- Doug.
Fearing generations
Generations before are our fear of death; generations after fear of new, unexplored life—it’s not that we don’t know about them—we think little of them because we fear.
:- Doug.
