Why do retired people go on vacation?
Why do retired people go on vacation? What in our lives do we want to get away from? Or do we hope always for the new?
:- Doug.
Archive for July, 2013
When you look you cannot see
When you look you cannot see
G in that window, this puppy dog’s tail,
our bargaining for a used car
because to see G we’d need to back up
far enough to see it all
But we cannot do that for then
our eye’d be outside what it’s inside
:- Doug.
No longer “social media”
Let’s no longer call it “social media” for it is more important, profound and practical that that. Let’s call it the professional field when professionals are organically growing a community of practice, the activist field when we are making things happen, and the human heart field when we are making life easier for one another. When we see ourselves larger we are larger.
:- Doug.
about justice but more than that
It’s about justice but more than that
It’s so no one will be made to suffer
That we must converse about end of life
:- Doug.
Let me speak with those who are apt to accept
Let me speak with those who are apt to accept
My invitation: those who share the heart
:- Doug.
Einstein said something like
Einstein said something like
“There is only the field”
& we don’t know what a field is
So how can we live in such a world?
Openly my brother & sister, openly
:- Doug.
We’re hung up on the word “government”
We get hung up on the word “government,” as if someone were imposing something on us or were a big rich uncle giving out candy. In our democracy it will pay to remember “government” is really us. It is our community, right down to the neighbor next door. Government is our churches, associations, fraternal and civic groups, and yes, our cities and states. Government is how we gather ourselves. It is how we decide to help our fellow critters—or hinder. Don’t let this word confuse you—choose whom you help and how much. Better, don’t choose. Help where and when you can.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1345–an occasion worth celebrating
Footprints in the Windsm # 1345
This is an occasion
worth celebrating
this drinking water
over breakfast
together
Please pass it on.
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Can we better help those approaching death?
Can we better help those approaching death? Can we do death better? Let’s get very specific, speak of your job—we each have a role, from nurse to banker.
:- Doug.
the difficult easy life fulfilling way
Imagine
a better near neighborhood
tomorrow
what you can do
today
whom you can engage in
converse
the two or three of you then
doing
this is the difficult easy life fulfilling
way
:- Doug.
we drew comforting pictures
“At hand” we were told
and we drew comforting pictures
of Heaven when really
we were missing the other part
gently accusing us—
showing us our plow
outstanding
in our field
without a hand
:- Doug.
I’m in the best possible position to do….
I’m in the best possible position to do what I can do, to invite the people I can touch, to set in motion the things I can.
:- Doug.
Final destination
Life unfolds
I unfold
Together we
As well
This stream
Nor any
Finished product
Whole story
Final destination
:- Doug.
Long uphill & sharp rocks protruding
Long uphill & sharp rocks protruding
is the journey of humankind
run stumble up again—such our inspiration!
:- Doug.
Integrate unify fuse indwell
Integrate unify fuse indwell
Integrate unify fuse indwell
Others & we are all first person
Parts of the only the whole the one universe
We do these not to others
Only with our own single self
Integrate unify fuse indwell
:- Doug.
