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a storm of light
rushes around us
at 300,000 meters per second
and we, imagining we’re seeing,
call this time
then are time and light related?
does one beget the other?
do they together beget us?
or the other way around
the product of our movement?
or some more primal?
daily I have infinities of mysteries
to explore and make

:- Doug.

Time destroys things
Time the Destroyer
The second law

:- Doug.

About what are you wondering?
Or as Germanic peoples might say
What wonders you?
On what are you working?
What’s working you?
This is a day of applying
With each other, to your own life
What you’ve been hearing, learning:
How might the tire meet the road?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1371

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conversation rich, textured and
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To a dying client
and her daughter—
What are you savoring
of your presence
to each other,
your together-events?

:- Doug.

same & different
both and & either or

:- Doug.

A contrail mars the beautiful deep blue.

:- Doug.

Where does life get its movement? Movement in itself cannot be seen, but when wind moves the trees or muscles move the body, then we see. We define life from its movement in gross ways as walking and subtle ways like growth. But what is movement, and what is its genesis?

:- Doug.

Just sittin’ in your presence
…ahh….

:- Doug.

The world is 1% reception and 99% perception.

:- Doug.

The universe has stars and comets and asteroids, electrons and things exploding outward, and things exploding inward, and all this is one.

:- Doug.

How would you organize a classroom of 23 third graders? Alphabetically. By birth date. By height. By hair color, eye color, shirt color. How could you organize your world? Could each of us arrange things differently, and be all right?

:- Doug.

I had a birthday this week. Maybe that’s a joy, maybe a little sadness, or maybe that is an interweaving of life with them.

:- Doug.

Maybe the question you have does not yet have words, or even images. So butterfly!

:- Doug.

In the meeting, will anyone meet? Will life or time or space be created or found? If not, stay. If yes, go.

:- Doug.

Does God need you to protect God? With God all things are possible, yes? There are many possibilities….

:- Doug.

Are there possibilities beyond those you’ve conceived?

:- Doug.

Quakers got their start as a rebellious sort—refusing to say Sir or Ma’am, refusing to remove hats in the presence of judges, calling officials by the familiar “Thee.” Quakers are not quaint: they are quirky and disruptive.

:- Doug.

Possibility
on occasion
wears a bell
mostly she wears
grey

:- Doug.

Three strands
Interwoven
Time
Possibility
Ending of Time

:- Doug.

Does time with your family take possibility or find it? Take life or create it?

:- Doug.

Does Open Space take time or create time? Take possibility or make it?

:- Doug.

Does the meeting of a woman and a man in their child find time, create time, open possibility, or more? Or less?

:- Doug.