LIfe as adventure
Children enter the room of worshipers
leave parents to greet one another
why shouldn’t life be such an adventure?
Try new things,
meet friends,
touch, taste,
to make good this now
as much as possible!
:- Doug.
Archive for December, 2012
Going into my day hearing
Not much going on for insights, nor in my reading, so I will today go into my day with the idea of hearing, being available. Concentrate on my ears and heart today, hear what comes in through these portals. A good approach to any day.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1290–Sandy Hook silence
Footprints in the Windsm # 1290
Was it loose gun controls that set us up for the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy? Our addiction to violent video game? Mental illness? I don’t know. No one can know.
But we have an opportunity for a right response. Whether or not our leaders call for it, we can resolve, for the sake of generations of children to come, to do it right this time.
Let us as a people take a month, a full 30 days, away from taking action, jumping to quick decisions, even from talking about it. No preaching. No politics. No lobbying.
Let us take time for silence.
Perhaps a time for contrition. Certainly a time for reflection. Mourning. A time for prayer, meditation, contemplation.
Silence,
silence in the face
of tragedy
Our generation
can set an example
for future generations
let us take time
to not know
Please pass it on.
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Home is the place
Home is the place where especially we the broken can be accepted as whole and as the best the world owns.
home
is
whole-making
is
home
:- Doug.
Your heart has always
What are the conversations your heart has always desired? What are you waiting for?
:- Doug.
Trails of life
Air swirls all about
You make the swirls
As you move
As others move about you
In your wake—
Newness &
Trails of life
:- Doug.
Something larger for your Will
In your Will you might leave your loved ones a larger thing than you’ve already got figured out.
:- Doug.
An alternative to trying to control our thoughts
When we concentrate our mind on one thing, we are controlling or more precisely trying to control our thoughts. A more gentle thing would be to watch.
:- Doug.
Restoration to ease
Restoration to the ease of a body of 40 or even 30 is not possible for a body of 80 growing translucent. It may not even be desirable. But healing—wholeness—is possible and desirable.
:- Doug.
A path that will hold
If we care to devise a path that will hold, it is necessary to have a diversity of people in the mix. To go a way that satisfies a few or only a majority, the others are left behind or will pull another way; the circle will not hold. Complex populations demand we include all complexities. A simple, solid, lasting way needs to hear all voices. Simplistic and one-sided ways are doomed; hearing everyone leads to elegant and even simple ways.
:- Doug.
I suppose this is what we try to do:
I suppose this is what we try to do in conversation: convey our selves, not just our ideas. We want to be accepted and loved and that takes conveying, moving ourselves from here to you.
:- Doug.
Why words don’t work for larger things
It occurred to me this morning that words seek to specify something about something, that they try to take the something apart and look at just a part of it, and that is why then words do not work for larger things like divinity and wholeness.
:- Doug.
See, it is all a dance
We touch our world
Our neighbors
Thinking to move them
They to move us
See, it is all a dance
:- Doug.
Like spring water
We are more like the water of springs than we know—and most often like its brittle ice.
:- Doug.
Why complicate your life?
Trusts: why complicate your life if you don’t have to? Simple can be elegant and your best fit.
:- Doug.
Only one life
There is only one life
& we’re each living part of it
& we’re all living all of it
:- Doug.
Different for each
We may be different people for each person we meet but all the persons we meet and all we can meet and all we ever are, are one.
:- Doug.
Wanting the boundless
Wanting the boundless for others as well as for myself has to be what I am about or I am not worthy of my work.
:- Doug.
Poetry makes the poet?
Could it be that
poetry makes the poet
(& not simply comes through the poet)?
So who are we
& what do we invent?
:- Doug.
