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Words fail because they are of the left brain, the intellect. Pictures might tell more.

:- Doug.

Patience too is action
Emptying goes beyond patient waiting
Emptying too is action

:- Doug.

The words go
after we have gone
places beyond words

:- Doug.

Because I am startled
I write
To startle

:- Doug.

As I grow older
some things are slowing
others speeding

:- Doug.

Every day I see afresh
My vision is renewed
O words you do not tell, you do not tell

:- Doug.

Who may not see
You boost me
So I see
There is much to see
It is everywhere

:- Doug.

There is a larger
I have seen it
I see it near every day
We have not the words
I do not say

:- Doug.

Heaven and other goals
Mislead us to think their
Attainment is the highest good

:- Doug.

Seek not to change the world
But see to it
You turn

:- Doug.

Are you the person to be my literary executor? To start the process of publishing while I am alive?

:- Doug.

This is written through me
Not by what you picture as God
By something much larger

:- Doug.

If I drop in the sea
I pull the sea up to me
If I fly to the stars
I pull the stars to me
I am of the whole

:- Doug.

Conversation is contra
To what we suppose
Works
So too sleep
So too play

:- Doug.

Maybe big is only better for the big…egos.

:- Doug.

Being human is about the start, the heart from which something flows.

:- Doug.

Thinking is arduous work. Remembering is much easier. That’s why we have slogans.

:- Doug.

Attempt something. Good. Together.

:- Doug.

Say the ponderful. Do right. That’s all we need aspire to.

:- Doug.

Hope and fear are about accomplishment and results. Results are an impostor, a thing leading us astray. What we need to do is right work. Now.

:- Doug.

People go where people go
People will go where people go
People will go where hearts go
People: go where people go
People: go where your hearts go

:- Doug.

I am heartened by the long view, seeing humankind over millennia of millennia—and more than humankind—and over vast immeasurable distances. I want to see longer still for surely this view is holy, whole-making, and heartening.

:- Doug.

This Grandpa loves to get on the floor in a pile with kids and tickle, wrestle, hug. Unknown to any of us—certainly to me for many years—there is here a message. We are one. We are. There is joy here.

:- Doug.