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Have it hot!
Have it cold!
Life is tasteless lukewarm

:- Doug.

Where in our culture is the person who speaks out about the ethics of the organization? Who speaks to corporate actions, say greed and bribery, to governmental decisions, say war and conscription of our elders into homes of endless hours of suffering?

:- Doug.

Medicine can extend our days. In so doing, extend our suffering.

:- Doug.

Images
not tracks of soul
motions

:- Doug.

Calf follows its mother
Content trails along
After the poem

:- Doug.

Commerce and Converse share a similar history, if not root: Together + merx as in merchandise, a trading. In the case of conversing we are trading at surface ideas, at depth being.

:- Doug.

“Sisters” does not simply mean a shared course of study, it means taking one another in, allowing ourselves to be taken in by others, accepting the seeping of our common blood, our common suffering, our common germination. In a word, the soul we are each and all a part of.

:- Doug.

Ω 2266 But what is thinking? It is analyzing, moving images around before we physically move objects. It includes synthesis. It is not imagination or creativity—that comes later in generativity, T₅. Thinking is putting things in cubby holes, so in this way it is not far from remembering, T_0.5.

:- Doug.

Quanta of thinking: T_0.5 to T_….

:- Doug.

Words are momentary condensations, audible thinking.

:- Doug.

The test of this knowing is the extent to which the knowers come alive.

:- Doug.

T_0.5 Remembering thinking, the politician’s stump speech.

:- Doug.

Music’s ‘neath.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1477

If I can’t remember the word, I will be still. Not for the word to come, but for what is more profound.

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Healing reframes whole lives. Future can rewrite past, we can use a soft brush, a new color.

:- Doug.

Attention may be the lens that shows us grief, pain, hate, and love, wholeness, inclusion.

:- Doug.

If you don’t work for heaven here, how can you in good conscience look for heaven there?

:- Doug.

Like husbands and wives, even sometimes siblings, we need to not like each other very much, to hate each other, in order to get to owning our love of one another.

:- Doug.

There is something brewing in me around these notions of grief, conflict, and antagonism, something that says these are part of life and need to be taken into the embrace. We cannot have conversation wholly agreeable, but it can be wholly loving, even when we are hating and fighting. We can find a way to include us all, and all our aspects. Otherwise we war and risk losing one another.

Perhaps I am trying to make these make sense, when they are more aptly sensed.

We may need to live through the storms and the pain to get to the other side. We do not need to war. We need to hear others, to give expression, and to hear ourselves.

:- Doug.

What we lack in a cared-for world is creativity: our need to give, to be needed or at least of worth, to love.

:- Doug.

Alliances and antagonies
the respiration
of life

:- Doug.

America’s leadership of the world is based on creativity. Yet our economic engine runs on scarcity. We are in danger of shooting ourselves in the head.

:- Doug.

What are examples of knowing from within? Within contradictions, polarities, conflict, grief, the body, theater, imagination, intimacy? Hearing the Alamo story and being, precisely being, in the Alamo, where these particular real men died. In times of not grasping, simply gasping.

:- Doug.