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Get over evidence! What possibilities we can imagine are larger than all pasts: let the dead pasts keep burying themselves. Our brains are plastic, our lives pliable. Make new. Make better.

:- Doug.

Observers participate in creating reality—this we are told by physics. So as observers of our politics, consumers of our economy, citizens of our jobs, professions, and the Web, we create these things everyday. Or let them wash over us, creating us to be pawns. Our creating can start with seeing other than accustomed characteristics and possibilities for what is. Suddenly, see more.

:- Doug.

In my 68th year I have health, energy, and am as happy as I can remember. But life is seldom a straight line: ought I do something to ready myself for decline? Yet how can I know the shape of that decline? Making memories of a full life might be a thing to do. Make strong my spiritual and larger practices—meditation/contemplation, writing, poetry, conversing—this is perhaps optimal preparation. These can prepare me to incline as a few things decline.

:- Doug.

What is the first thing we wish each other each year?That the year be happy. There is wisdom just beneath the surface here: wealth and fame are not what we want most; not even health. Yet on the second we go back to work and chase these second order goods when the first is at our hand.

:- Doug.

Do what pleases you
We carry hate
Not in our hands
Does it please you to carry
A stone in your stomach?

:- Doug.

When I have a thought
I want to ask
Is it a memory a twist
Or some new direction?
Is it limited in particles or waves?
Does it follow Newton or Bohm
Or Seuss?

:- Doug.

Washes over us gently
ever moving, peaceful
strong, irresistible
buoying, imperceptibly quick
a sea the world is

:- Doug.

For our time for all times

:- Doug.

Together work is holy work

:- Doug.

Invitation
& acceptance
attract one another
acceptance calls forth
invitation calls forth
good heads good hearts
good adversaries

:- Doug.

Open your hand
hold more
a tiny being
called essence
coax out

:- Doug.

There are no answers
Only opening questions
Opening opening larger

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1487

Before we meet we have carried ourselves in a small pitcher. When we meet we pour ourselves into a larger bowl.

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Empty lies on either end of creating
divinity too?

:- Doug.

Smallness
nothingness
vulnerability
source of all
our home place

:- Doug.

Bring together
presence with absence
space with time
passion with responsibility
we will surprise ourselves

:- Doug.

Let us bring food to office and meeting rooms
eating and gathering and food preparation
to places where humankind today feels least welcome
an act not of rebellion
but of humanity

:- Doug.

Why do we seem to seek to make things bigger—grow our membership, make new friends, make more sales, have a bigger government? It is so pervasive it seems natural. The Israelites wanted to be as numerous as the grains of sand on the shore. We want to explore. Could it be, could it be, we desire to touch each other, to touch all, to be one with all? Is it a spiritual essence to us?

:- Doug.

See the way
easier, then, for another to see
even if others have seen before
you ease the way for someone
saying might help but is unnecessary

:- Doug.

Whispers swirl about us
hints of other minds alive
breaths seeking to be heard
particles composting, steaming
whispers all about us, holy

:- Doug.

We give
to each other
to the world
freely, without exchange
pro bono

:- Doug.

It’s all yours
Whatever will be made
Of this crystalline moment-place

:- Doug.

You are invited to hold
The fullness of generosity
The germination of endings
The peace of conflict
The action of rest

:- Doug.