Archive for June, 2011

Live each moment as though the questions mattered

Live each moment as though the questions mattered.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 30th, 2011 | No Comments »

Humans have no land

Humans have no land
The land has them
They are of the humus
& to it they home
Fences are an affront to spirit

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 30th, 2011 | No Comments »

gold tips

One has to be careful
that the gold on one the side of the scale
does not tip out the spirit on the other

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 30th, 2011 | No Comments »

If you must have goals ask

If you must have goals ask
of each are you
nurturing of life, substantial, enduring?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 30th, 2011 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1166–see-far-ers

Footprints in the Windsm # 1166

Elders help us become see-far-ers.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 29th, 2011 | No Comments »

poems & dreams & doors are we

A series of poems & dreams & doors are we
More than what each might appear (Is this
Why our God is wholly invisible, yes?)
Transport to carry, puzzle to lose our minds,
Labyrinth to walk in contemplation
Between, among: shadows & mists & clearing:
Doors & poems & dreams & stories & questions

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2011 | No Comments »

People need weeding

People in my garden need weeding and watering and feeding and sometimes some lightning. They produce, not me, but I can help them send out roots and shoots.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2011 | No Comments »

What good will you be?

What good would you like for your having been on this planet to amount to?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2011 | No Comments »

Instead of selling

Instead of selling
things
we are helping
persons

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2011 | No Comments »

I want to say

I want to say
I see you
I hear you

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2011 | No Comments »

We invest in you

We invest in you
pieces of our lives

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2011 | No Comments »

This red ribbon

This red ribbon
is not the gift
nor are pretty pieces of paper
—it’s in shared glimmerings of life
The gift is the
heart of the giver

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2011 | No Comments »

family & life & dreams

At this market we are selling
completeness and wholeness of
family & life & dreams

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2011 | No Comments »

The edge of this sea

The edge of this sea
Is before me in mists
I can tell it is vast
& will carry us rowing and splashing
To new and lively shores

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2011 | No Comments »

Why a dump truck Will?

Why do you want a dump truck Will? If all you want is to rid yourself of stuff then Who gets it and How should matter little. If it is important who and how, then you owe them to think through how and how much and what and when.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2011 | No Comments »

home and journey

We journey toward home
Friend is both home & journey

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2011 | No Comments »

not the road less traveled by

It’s not the road less traveled by
that makes all the difference
but the taking

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2011 | No Comments »

at any moment complete

Who can say when the end
of a human life will be
or therefore its middle?
We think we know the beginning
But each life is at any moment complete

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2011 | No Comments »

satisfying lovers

God has many aliases
Not for hiding but
For satisfying all lovers

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2011 | No Comments »

A Will is a way of nurturing dreams

A Will is a way of nurturing dreams—those of your tribe as a whole, particular ones of your children and other beneficiaries. What do they dream? How can you help? What do you have—especially besides things?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 26th, 2011 | No Comments »

We cannot plan

We cannot plan
we have no assurance of results
we can only address

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 26th, 2011 | No Comments »

Loneliness

Loneliness is our greatest suffering. Therefore the work of elder caring is critical.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 26th, 2011 | No Comments »

power of storm

There is power of storm
in conversation
the power of life
Here are consternation, tears,
sweat, births, madness,
drunkenness, rain, surrender,
absence, lightning, emptiness,
sacrifice, thunder, deaths,
all the rest of the
wholeness we call life
seeded in conversation
the storm of life

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 26th, 2011 | No Comments »
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