No one poet sings
No one poet sings
Every needful thing
But all of us
:- Doug.
Commercials silenced: You must buy this
Consumerism opened: Sit and absorb
I like the way Quakers worship
:- Doug.
Archive for July, 2012
Commercials silenced:
Restrictions on individual action
There are restrictions on individual action; perhaps we do not often see these limits. We are, as individuals, limited. There is more we can be, more we can do, together.
:- Doug.
come what may or taking charge
If they want to live
letting come what may
or taking charge
let them
live their own lives!
:- Doug.
Longing
There is a longing for connection, and well beyond that a profound longing for oneness. Not sameness, but unity in our very diversity: making larger and more lively, more lovely, more colorful linking of hands.
:- Doug.
What truth beneath the old words?
Where is the truth
underlying these old words?
Words of lambs & fathers,
powers & magick,
dependence & death,
words from which
I am now repelled?
These words spoke of humanity,
of death & life,
dismay & celebration,
birthing cries & graving cries,
cries out to a larger reality,
over which our forebears
have thrown costumes
which fit themselves
as I probably am doing today
:- Doug.
My problem with being stern
My problem with being stern is that I am taking a role, one I have not played before and have only thought through one line or two. Better in the moment to invent ways to be friendly and gracious and see how deep I can go with that.
:- Doug.
Inviting old age to pour
I invite this old age estuary to pour into the sea, to expand and spread itself. This is a larger picture than devising the meaning of one’s life, of hugging and forgiving and laughing and crying at our death bed. We all are poured out into the great sea; we all spread out and expand. This is something to celebrate, not mourn. We can pour out our libation into the great sea, and become larger whole.
:- Doug.
This one’s touch was felt
Walt Whitman wrote about life and me concluding the good we are is to add our verse to the “powerful play,” that “life exists and identity.”
That is what we are after as individuals, is it not: identity? We need to know that this individual jot mattered, was heard, made a difference: touched and this one’s touch was felt.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1264–Love to the power of love
Footprints in the Windsm # 1264
We pay in this country for getting defined tasks done. We think these tasks move us along. But maybe all they do is turn the wheel within which we are running endlessly. They put food in our stomachs to have it go out in natural course, they entertain us till we need entertaining again. But do we grow as people, as a people? Do we become more loving? Do we engage each other better, deeper, for more good? Do we make ourselves more whole?
This is hard to say, harder to do. Yet is it not imperative that we invent ways to grow more loving, more whole-making, more complete?
This means we grow together. We have explored about as far as we can go the powers of the rugged individual. It is time we come together and see what powers are between and among.
What are these powers but powers of imagination, imagination to the power of imagination, and much more than that, love to the power of love?
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love letters to our families
Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Personal Care Agreements, Living Wills, end of life caring, Long-Term Caring: I help people write love letters to their families.
:- Doug.
Who speaks first?
If our client has the right to his or her own death upon which he or she has not focused, who should first raise the question?
:- Doug.
The world becoming
A world becoming is the work of and is conversation. Conversation conceives the world capable of becoming ever more whole. Conversation is on the move as is the world in which on which and with which it works. Conversation is moving itself ever toward wholeness, expanding wholeness. Conversation is the world becoming.
:- Doug.
Why would wisdom want us smaller?
Why would any wisdom want us to be smaller than we could be? To be servants and not explorers, dust and ashes instead of creators and makers, to be plodders rather than dreamers? We are called to the highest we can imagine, to stir our collective blood and together to do.
:- Doug.
When our death is upon us?
When our death is upon us, what shall we do? How shall we meet?
Shall we be drugged, or so tired we do not meet well?
Shall we be joyful, grim, with friends and lovers, alone, with book, music, stillness?
:- Doug.
Our main dialogue:
Our main dialogue is between individual and humanity: how do we live together when we see ourselves so separate?
:- Doug.
One major dialogue:
One major dialogue is among challenge, ability, and willingness. We can scale any of these up or down. We can bite off little or more; we can engage skills long ago mastered or those still a mystery; we can walk towards or away. We weave ourselves into a complex fabric called “us:” you, he, she, me, blood, meaning, flesh, wind, stars, and in all this our work is ever more complete humans, and ever more complete humanity.
:- Doug.
