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Pull my spiral wider.

:- Doug.

I think of God
I think of the sidereal universe
I think of family
I meet a neighbor
We meet another
We argue
We come together
The world shifts
We shift
The future surprises
Each step larger than the last

:- Doug.

Larger knows no end
Larger opens

:- Doug.

I sit in worship—here is larger
In walks Beth, her Sam is in hospital
All hearts flow to here—here is larger
Circle circumference spiral—larger still

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1431

This animal became human the wise not when we knew—all animals know something—rather when we reflected on what we knew.

We invented knowing to the second power, knowing squared. We became capable of knowing and creating not just physical objects but mental ones.

Such reflection is of a higher and different order from learning the observable physical world and the facts given by another. That is the reason we need to leave room after lectures and all-nighters for reflection and sleep.

There is a further possibility: knowing cubed, knowing to the third power. I see developing the arena of knowing ourselves collectively, as knowers reflecting on—us.

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Let’s turn the asylum over to the transformants.

:- Doug.

Invite transformants

:- Doug.

A poet makes things out of words
to communicate or tuck away what
words cannot

:- Doug.

The larger does not control us
Nor we it
Yet we do each other spin

:- Doug.

Live ever in touch with the larger. This is essential to life. Why? The world in which we live consists in at least two things and those maybe in equal measure: what we perceive by our senses and how we mold those perceptions with our minds, our hearts, and our wills. Where is the larger in that? Clearly it is not all out there and a case can be made that the in here is infinite. Together is the larger. Or connected to it. The larger is not merely in one of us nor yet in a bunch of us—it is in the between of us.

In touch therefore means opening in all possible ways: the five bodily senses; meditation/contemplation; conversation; journaling; reading; and more. Pay attention. Engage.

Engage those who engage.

And not for little o our good. For big O Our good: the whole. This means doing good for others. Not just our family but for people we may never meet. All life. All stars.

We find ourselves at the center of it all. If we pay attention.

The center is gooey green cheese. Or whatever we say it is. However fantastic, we can make something of what was said, we can mold ourselves, our hearts, our minds. Big O Our.

Our hearts we under-develop in our age, even denigrate. Our will in some senses we ignore. So our becomes little o. We center our lives in detached little balls, bouncing off one another, protecting ourselves from one another. If we but once open our brittle shells and let one another and the larger in, we would find we can live larger.

In short: if we touch the larger we find ourselves larger. Transformed we live larger.

Opened we live opening.

:- Doug.

Creating is the seminal radical act.

:- Doug.

Work on publishing wider.

:- Doug.

Why, Where, What does it look like? Does it express your true self?

:- Doug.

Can we reach bedrock?
Conversation knows only infinite betweens
Intricacies to explore to make

:- Doug.

At your age, have you done what you came here to do, yet? Have you sung your song, written your book, hugged enough?

:- Doug.

Into
The pressure cooker
Good heads, good hearts,
A tangled question
Heat
Out comes action,
Change, Metamorphosis!

:- Doug

Arose those colors from the meadow floor
Flowers floated above their stems
In twos and threes around each other they spun
As I looked on, a center emerged
On it the whole began to turn
A transformation of butterflies!
In less than a minute they twinkled off
Dispersing, taking the larger of me

:- Doug.

People are organized around their resignations, their apathies, their anonymities. A better world for their children seems unlikely. This is the necessary first front of community disorganization. Work here.

:- Doug.

What would become of us if there weren’t little children playing for us?

:- Doug.

What do fireflies do?
Overcome inertia

:- Doug.

We open a space where
no clear binaries exist:
the unknown

:- Doug.

To converse is a spiritual act
of love, of storm,
of screaming birth

:- Doug.

The opening
Comes about every moment
Miss it once it comes again
Miss it every time it stays away
Grab your ring this is your life

:- Doug.