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Friend, into your profound wholeness, for what it is.

:- Doug.

Wholeness helps explain why we feel our deepest connections in times of disaster: our masks are down, we feel a tinge of every emotion wrapped in the day: sun and mud; tears and relief; grief and pain and weariness and embrace. At the raw edge, life. Life most profound.

:- Doug.

This is life: sharing the whole of life, the pain and suffering and striving, sharing the most deeply, drinking to the dregs. Lees and dregs in a bittersweet wine: it holds sediment and muddiness, for sure.

:- Doug.

As my grandchildren mature
my stories need to change
to deepen

:- Doug.

The seasons spin round
Because our earth wobbles
The days spin round
Because our planet spins
How spirals our universe, our world?

:- Doug.

You are afraid
of opening yourself
to grief, suffering, loss,
to all the negative our world can make:
because all is parcel of all
these include living’s joy and intensity
go and open anyway

:- Doug.

Take off the shoes of your heart.

:- Doug.

This is an important day
You will meet divinity

:- Doug.