poet’s work
Stretching words
peeling their rind
digging out their fruit center
finding their seed
such is the poet’s work
:- Doug.
Archive for October, 2011
Meeting meeting itself
Meeting means not only meeting another being as such but meeting meeting itself. “May there be a goodly share on every table everywhere” means responsibility for humans and for me. Meeting implies responsibility in response. Meeting meeting in its moving. Meeting a mirroring: responding to responding.
:- Doug.
The dashes
I-Thou and I-It it seems to tell us something in their respective dashes: In one case it is one directional, in the other multi dimensional. Maybe that is a clue to understanding Buber anew.
:- Doug.
threading between beings
What if the holy were the strandings between beings: the pulsing threading; always moving; touching, meeting? This meets the test of verbing: holy other. It meets the test of being in presence in nature. It meets the test of Indra’s net.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1192–Everything is fun!
Footprints in the Windsm # 1192
How smart are we!
A mobile over a baby’s head
showing—tactilely—how the world works
everything is connected
everything is moving
always
when something is touched
everything is changed
everything is one
everything is brightly colored
everything is fun!
Please pass it on.
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To soothe, to work, to march….
To soothe, to work, to march, to joke, to laugh, to cry, to bury, to plant, to build, to be with, to reflect, to make pies and meaning, to cut down, to die, to birth, to worship: we come together.
:- Doug.
a good more ancient
Bringing people together is,
than money, a good more ancient
than money, a thing more sacred
:- Doug.
If the economy won’t recover soon….
If we are likely not going to go into the swinging years like we had in the 90s (Oh, but we did not know it then!) and the first 7 or so years of the 00s, then we have to learn to live a new way, or at least this is an opportunity to invite people to converse about a better way to live. What is the work we need to do?
Really, the question is, can we turn our thinking around to working from humanity, and then, if we thought it good, to changing our currency and other accouterments to support that working?
The desired way of thinking it seems to me has these characteristics: attention to humanity; attention to voice over words; meeting (which is a form of attention to voice); long-term thinking (keep the trees, promote life, do good work rather than seek short term profits); putting purpose ahead of profits; bringing capacity and need together; letting be, not controlling, not wanting to control but to open to what might emerge, to welcome it, to seek it out.
:- Doug.
to start the pivot
Perhaps our task is not to create whole the beloved community, but to start the pivot.
:- Doug.
nemes & memes & circus clowns
nemes & memes & circus clowns
voice & breath & inside-out
hint at—inside us—something more than
logic & law & technology
:- Doug.
Work first from humanity
This is the clue
To our economy
—To the way we live together—
Like the firefighters on 9-11
Like the boat pilots that day
Work, but work first from humanity
:- Doug.
These are heady times
These are heady times
People by the millions—dying
People by the billions—living
By our actions we contribute
By our hearts we decide
These are heady times
These are hearty times
:- Doug.
I’m a little red leaf
I’m a little red leaf
on a green tree
soon you’ll all be looking
just like me
then we’ll all go sailing
whee, whee, whee!
:- Doug.
Chitty-chitty, chat-chat
Chitty-chitty, chat-chat,
hide a little, stay apart
what good is that?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1191–Before you write your Will…
Footprints in the Windsm # 1191
Before you write your Will
Write a poem
To each person in it
Your poem will open to you
Story and heart,
Family and hearth,
The generations
Please pass it on.
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