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Leaning in and making life possible for another, for others—to me these are tied together: An inclination to give permission to be, and that be is in changing each other. Changing each other is ontic.

We only know we exist if we change from what we were.

So it seems. Like new physics: we can know the speed, the trajectory and the location of a quantum particle, but never all three at once. We can know the speed, the direction and the location of a person, but not all three at once. Existence is movement. Existence is moving.

Permission to be…making life possible…inclination to change the other…and be changed. Changing is making life possible. Changing is life. To change is to live. To live is to change. To change is to make life possible.

We disturb the soil and new seeds can lodge there, new air and sun infiltrate, new spores alight, roots can stretch farther: voilà! Life!

So this gives me a new way to approach people: with an inclination to change, to make life possible!

:- Doug.

We must work to change
To give our part
Or we just repeat what our ancestors did
& Our descendants will too
Meaninglessly

Is there wrong in that?
Not for the fox who kills to eat to kill again
But for us Purpose has a place
And we are given Permission to change this life
And Invitation

If we accept the Invitation to live
We have to try to change
The cycles
Deflect the trajectory to a better
Make mid course corrections
Rip a new path
Change each other
Invite—Invite—others to change us

There is a cycle
Your father labored all his days
Soon it was your turn at the wheel
Before it is your daughter’s
Lift your head
Shatter our manacles
Lift the spiral
Life is our Invitation to change

:- Doug.

When you are writing poetry ask
Not just Is this true? But also
How can I make this true
Give this effect?

:- Doug.

This is significant. It is larger than these words may hint. Changing people is making life possible. Conversation allows us to change our trajectory. Conversation brings forth some ones new. This is its large work. Life is G*d. So this is a theological statement as well. Conversation is for making G*d possible. Possible in people’s lives. How can we separate G*d out of life out of people people out of life the all there is out of G*d out of the all there is? Not tangled rather entwined branching one life. There is only one life. It extends beyond generations and is generating. Conversation is about living, living possibly.

:- Doug.