Archive for February, 2014

How do I lose you? Let me count—

Let me count—
After once seeing you I might die
You could walk away
My heart might grow cold to you
One of us in old age forgets,
Only remembers the long away
Laughing children
Comforting arms
Wonderful meals
Over smiles or tears
(It mattered little)
Lovers embracing
Strangers ahh-hahing at the same instant
It is a we task
We are to see to it
I do not lose you
You do not lose me

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2014 | No Comments »

Soft thoughts

Soft thoughts suit me fine.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2014 | No Comments »

I set before you life and death….

I set before you life and death. Choose…one of the 40 million and one flavors of life!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2014 | No Comments »

Caring means

Caring means we don’t just provide care to you, we care about you.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2014 | No Comments »

If you live to that age….

If you live to that age what do you picture fills your days?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2014 | No Comments »

The party set out

The party set out
on the sea
called Hate
and I walked to shore
while I could
no longer a Republican

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2014 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1400–Butterflies and flowers

Footprints in the Windsm # 1400

Butterflies work
with the flowers
to change things
don’t you?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 26th, 2014 | No Comments »

in the telling Told

How we hold
the conversation
about living
while we’re dying
tells about us
How we invite
the conversation
tells about us
Where we
don’t go
The stories
we tell
The stories
we won’t have
All these
our story
in the telling
Told

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2014 | No Comments »

Watercolor wonder

watercolor:
two birds
single color backdrop
wonder:
are birds, rocks,
trees, people
gatherings of
folds of
all there is?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2014 | No Comments »

Startling the poem

Startling
the poem need not be
only take us a new step

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2014 | No Comments »

God in but not out

God in
the trees and rocks and people of the world
the eating and conversing and picketing
the confusion and joys
the joy of confusion
shot through, interwoven
the fields, the winds
not beyond but still
all this
inseparable by men or God
God in but not out
a likely story

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2014 | No Comments »

Que sera, sera?

Why do we have battles with cancer
or whatever is going to take us?
Why do we insist on fighting our bodies
what remains of our living?
Did we ever own que sera, sera?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 24th, 2014 | No Comments »

Snoops

Only from our fellow citizens
can we now hope
to protect our privacy
but not more than slow down
our own government’s snoops
unless
just perhaps
we love our enemies
so we have none

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 24th, 2014 | No Comments »

Our debts are

Our debts are
Our savings account

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 23rd, 2014 | No Comments »

All that touches us

All that touches us
is of God

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 23rd, 2014 | No Comments »

The dove on the branch quietly

The dove on the branch quietly
looks at me looking at the dove
on the branch quietly and I wonder
about God

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 23rd, 2014 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1399–Handles for the turning

Footprints in the Windsm # 1399

Grief and Imagination
The handles
At the still point
For the turning


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 22nd, 2014 | No Comments »

To cause someone to laugh

To cause someone to laugh
Is to love them

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 22nd, 2014 | No Comments »

A heap of fun-sounding words:

A heap of fun-sounding words we have for some of us: Luther-ran (isn’t running fun?), Episcopalee-yan (a new type of currency), Method-dist (distancing ourselves from “It?”), Protestant (it’s fun to join the picket line), even small-c catho-lick (we love fudge-sicles!). So why do we give the poor Jews only two English words to call themselves: Jew and Jewish? Jewish reminds us of peev-ish and child-ish, ick and yuck. And wouldn’t Canadians feel more at home if they were Jews, and vicerey-versery? Guilt and apology go so well together, you will agree.

Which is why perhaps Jews find Yiddish (despite the -ishness, it has Yidd which sounds fun and even like a playful shape-shifting psychological character) and He-brew (who wouldn’t want a taste of what he brews?) so much fun.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 22nd, 2014 | No Comments »

Why do you want to live?

Why do you want to live? Meaning: For what purpose? With whom? What gives those few days meaning? Their mere number? The people and doings in them?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 22nd, 2014 | No Comments »

knowledge of medicine, tender, tough?

What characteristics would you want in someone making big medical decisions for you: good head, good heart, imagination, knowledge of medicine, tender, tough?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 21st, 2014 | No Comments »

Would you focus on technology?

If you were approaching death, would you focus on quality of life, or on the technology of medicine?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 21st, 2014 | No Comments »

Reach out

Reach out
to others
a little further

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 21st, 2014 | No Comments »
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