Archive for December, 2013

The necessary person

The between lives
The dash in I-Thou
Is the necessary person

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 31st, 2013 | No Comments »

Movement becomes meaning

Movement becomes meaning.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 31st, 2013 | No Comments »

Your life whispers to mine

Your life whispers to mine and from these touches my life is given life.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 31st, 2013 | No Comments »

Two kinds of conversation:

Have you seen that there are two kinds of conversation? Have you seen the debate of academia or of politics or of meaningless chitter-chatter? Have you seen people really connecting? What makes the difference? The difference I see is alertness combined with courageously exposing one’s innards. It is not something you can learn or teach. It is a practice. Take conversation out with you into the world.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 31st, 2013 | No Comments »

The true practice

Alertness, vigilance, exposing one’s innards: this is the work, the practice of true conversation.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 30th, 2013 | No Comments »

Conversation is a practice

Truly, conversation is a practice. Something anyone can do, but which takes a lifetime to learn.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 30th, 2013 | No Comments »

We are like the clouds

We are more like the clouds than we think
Our minds converge and diverge in continual movement
See a hand, now a face, now a tractor
Movement we perceive not
Because we attend not
The wind comes, we are gone
Forming again
Folding and unfolding
Persons

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 30th, 2013 | No Comments »

Changing the course of the stream

Time too is a flow, a stream moving from source to sea, with eddies swirling along the way where the flotsam and jetsam spin and repeat their motions with variations. Swimmers choose the quiet sides for raising their young, the deeps for feeding, and jump in the main flow for travel, choosing when to stay, when to move, sometimes moving against the flow. Where are the ones who will to change the course of the stream?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 29th, 2013 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1383–Color deepens

Footprints in the Windsm # 1383

Color deepens
Light suffers
Death of a loved one
Deepens our colors
What then if we die?
Oh, of course, when we die?
Goethe saw light suffering
In colors
If we deepen humanity
Is it because first
Light suffered?
A vessel deepened
Has greater capacity

Not attaining the scale
I’d like is itself
My kiln firing
To deepen
Colors & lustre

Play and dialogue:
Conflict in comfortable
Everyday clothes

Revelation: I fear conflict!
Yet seeding for new growth
Requires plowing under

Revelation two: I fear growth!
So much I keep
My mouth & pen silent

Scale up! Mouth and pen!
Enter the conflict…with self!
Deepen your colors
Speak out!
To spouse, family, world!
First, plow under, seed,
Play & dialogue,
Dance & snow
Relentlessly piling up:
But if you must, War!


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

Finite environs but do they encourage growth?

Even if the environs are finite do they encourage growth? Where best can I grow? With finite folks who invite or welcome new thought, or with those who seek infinity in bounded metaphors?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

The start of yelling, screaming, conflict

We are seeing yelling, screaming, conflict. We think it is aberrational, or at least we hope it is. We are only at the start. As our population grows, there will be only more opportunity for differing views and therefore conflict.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

How can one little squirt help?

The world is flow of spirit. How can one little squirt help?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

Don’t make a difference…

Don’t make a difference…with other folks.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 27th, 2013 | No Comments »

A magazine is….

A magazine is a periodical that arrives before I have opened the last one.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 27th, 2013 | No Comments »

Why do you, tree, stand upright?

Next to post to Web Why do you, tree, stand upright?
Your branches reach out in all directions
Thick green coat all year
For all that you ought to be round!
Even so, you point to sun and stars!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 27th, 2013 | No Comments »

What might be there behind

Let us perceive with our imagination what all is there and might be there behind what we think we see, what we have habitually trained ourselves to see and hear. These hold us in chains. We could be larger if we saw what was really there, saw with our imaginations!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 26th, 2013 | No Comments »

Smash the received labels

See with imagination
Smash the received labels
They make us less

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 26th, 2013 | No Comments »

To see the real ingrained in our daily round:

To see the real ingrained in our daily round:
Hold infinity, eternity, heaven and world
In the eyes of your imagination

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 26th, 2013 | No Comments »

A poet like Lewis Carroll

As a poet I must be as a Lewis Carroll—making words dance to my music, not looking for old tunes to express my new meaning. I can—ought—inject new meaning into the word “Love.” Every person a maker.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 25th, 2013 | No Comments »

How might we see with our imagination?

How might we see what is
Really
In front of us with our
Imagination?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 25th, 2013 | No Comments »

Nurturing people

In what ways is it possible to nurture the people in your rounds?What other ways? And again? Might there be other better ways?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 25th, 2013 | No Comments »

Entice ’em!

Don’t fight ’em
Entice ’em!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 24th, 2013 | No Comments »

Don’t you wish you could?

Don’t you wish you could
Imagine you world in more
Vivid colors…than you do?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on December 24th, 2013 | No Comments »
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