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I am a little impatient with myself, but I had determined to go in slow motion today. Besides, Bohm and Edwards keep saying part of the response to thought is to slow down thinking, to catch it in the act.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1462

Among us something emerges
Take off your shoes
This is holy ground

Please pass it on.

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I used to say we spend 98.5% of our time thinking in the future. Now I think I had it backwards. What we learned and experienced years ago recorded tapes and disks we replay now. Often unconsciously. But if now is our home, our only possible home, does now not deserve 98.5% of our efforts, not its mere 1%? Fire is an “ouchie,” but it can be useful now that we are adult. What “ouchies” did you replay today?

:- Doug.

Can you tell the difference between a memory and thinking in the present? Don’t be so quick…. Ask this question before you speak and see what you can see. Is it work now, or is it fitting something present to something past?

:- Doug.

How human, that is, creative, do we allow people to be in a nursing home? Staff, administrators, residents all face the same limits.

:- Doug.

If you want to see larger
Parcels of the world
You must converse
With far and wide

:- Doug.

This casino runs on pure greed and cigarette smoke.

:- Doug.

Swear off metaphors!
Seek one to many correspondences
Squealing birds, monkeys, tires
Do not exhaust the possibilities
Evoke

:- Doug.

My insights are glimpses and guessings.

:- Doug.

The poetry is but guessings.

:- Doug.

A good example of T₃ is the Medicaid caseworker interview—together advocate and caseworker are thinking about the past, analyzing and categorizing and proving. Seldom reflecting, never generating. Issacs’ picture of politeness, etc., overlaps a bit with T₁…T₆, but his is more concerned with the what and results of the interactions than the nature of the work that is being done (analysis, reflection, etc.) although he does approach generativity and emergence.

:- Doug.

Then I saw a universe much larger and diverse, divers too—at least 6 powers of thinking, 6 directions, 5 gestures, unnumbered dimensions beyond thought, 360 flows, and here we sit counting and sorting and guessing, when we could be! And engage!

:- Doug.

Courts are a utility. Courts are not a hindrance, but a way to get clarity and finality, commodities rare in our world. When you need water you go to the water utility, for electricity you go to a different place. A trust is good for fair weather for monetary assets for long terms. But if you need a quick disposition of human issues, a court may be your choice.

:- Doug.

Conversation is not a skill
Like driving a car
Many driving actions need to be
Ingrained
So we can act in an instant
Conversing takes an ever new
We
Ever present
Ever conscious of
Everything
The only ingrained is
Moment to moment to moment
Attention

:- Doug.

Life after death?
Love after death!

:- Doug.

Jill Bolte Taylor used the word “innocence” which strikes me as a good word—we want to be naïve, open, at peace and at one. Her experience also suggests to me that babies are born with a functional right mind and we spend years training the left one. What if we trained the right one as well?

:- Doug.

For this lawyer, time is…life energy.

:- Doug.

The can-play-dom is a space I can enter when I bring myself fully into the presence of this one person, even among a group.

:- Doug.

Steel yourself for reflection
It is the thing which helps

:- Doug.

The poem cannot be unwritten

:- Doug.

What is the meaning of life for a person who has dementia? For a person who is never going to get well?

:- Doug.

Between us
May be no third person
May be only the first
When the grey cloth
Is lifted
We see
First—only—person

:- Doug.

A way I am not
I am a way
To a way

:- Doug.