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At war no more
Life and I
Usually love each other
Usually: a word of exultation
Anger is passed by
We are better
The best things can get

:- Doug.

We’ve learned something new
We’re excited to tell others!
But when the excitement fades?
Do we become boring?
Of do we find something new? Or?

:- Doug.

Trusts are doing the work twice: once at start, once at finish. You need to get the property into the trust, then you need to get it out. Probate is doing the work once. You only transfer it from one person to the other.

:- Doug.

Saying everyone needs a trust is like saying every man needs to own a tuxedo. They are great for special settings but not an everyday necessity.

:- Doug.

Increasing experience
leads us to increasing—
subtlety
nuances
essence
softness
—humanity
—divinity

:- Doug.

It is never after May if it is not always after May.

:- Doug.

Let’s have a Conver-Sing!

:- Doug.

Make room for life.

:- Doug.

We are merely inviting us to turn our consciousness from the hard to the harder. From hard hearts to beating personal ones, harder to understand with one organ of our bodies. From hard inflexible numbers to the difficult questions asked by others. From hard Dollar profits to the harder cases like, from whom we may be taking for those profits.

:- Doug.

If death is ceasing to exist, ceasing to stand out—and surely we see this when we think of our ancestors whom we never saw, with whom we never conversed: when they died they ceased to stand out to us and our grandchildren—then ought we do things now to prepare for our long-term role…or non-role? One would be to blend in today, stop trying to stand out, for it will not last. One would be consciously to do something that matters for the seventh generation. What would be others?

:- Doug.

I see some things—I ought to share them.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1372

Can you afford to live to a ripe old age?

Please pass it on.

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Yes, we’re going to die
but taking responsibility
we can live through that too

:- Doug.

Now I need to remember to do my loving work, to pay attention to those today I may love.

:- Doug.

“God” puts us in mind
calls us to pay attention
but is not a name

:- Doug.

God doesn’t do magic tricks
for me
any more than my wife does
we are related
we love one another
that is all
that is more than sufficient
so I don’t bow down to worship
trees, fish and wind:
sister sun,
brother moon,
love me
we respect one another
we do loving things
light, warmth, visions
no magic, bigger

:- Doug.

The weather—this windstorm—is larger than us. We think we can walk through it being too small for the wind to bother with, or we think we can with our car plow through the storm untouched. But it is larger than us. Attention must be paid! Attention: is this the currency of the gods?

:- Doug.

Infinite are the poems
in the heart of humanity
without number are the poets possible
we are the songs
we are the dancers
time without time

:- Doug.

an infinite number of infinite numbers
is yet an infinite number
a continuum of all numbers
is larger
yet the same: infinite
(we cannot define infinite)
any length line holds for us
an infinity of points
so I will use to hold
infinity in the palm of my hand
—

:- Doug.

Some things seem impossible
while equally
inevitable necessary & real
are such paradoxes what we mean by
divinity?
paradox
para deus?

:- Doug.

We echo each other
reverberate—ricochet—reflect
from all about us sounds and colors
from all directions, yes
still, from a single source

:- Doug.

Raindrops bouncing on the pond
wind around my face
bird calls in my ears
divinity is the meeting
of movement and movement

:- Doug.

G is moving
All is moving
We move

:- Doug.