when we are adjectives to one another
We are most ourselves when we are adjectives to one another: modifying, touching, growing, meaning making.
:- Doug.
We are most ourselves when we are adjectives to one another: modifying, touching, growing, meaning making.
:- Doug.
G is present. That perhaps is even better than verb: to be adjective.
:- Doug.
Being present is conversing of the deepest kind.
:- Doug.
The window through which I observe the world is the same window through which the world observes me.
:- Doug.
Actually, nothing can connect us, for we already are.
:- Doug.
Words can connect us, but at a point they always get in the way.
:- Doug.
Our world transitional: moving from transactional to loving…or we can work in that direction.
:- Doug.
What are the dis-eases of dying?
Won’t be here
Others will hurt
Meaninglessness
Forgotten
Extreme medicalism
:- Doug.
this is subtle
(sand your fingertips)
you are hearing yourself
nor the shallow you
nor solitary
:- Doug.
The politician is about presence.
:- Doug.
The antidote is about presence.
:- Doug.
Making art is
Making sense of our lives
Of memento mori, memento vivere
:- Doug.
I don’t know
What my message is
—But I’ve got one!
:- Doug.
How can I be present to you?
:- Doug.
Be just one person. All settings.
:- Doug.
This is peace. Unknowing. Going.
:- Doug.
First a poet. Then a lawyer.
:- Doug.
Speak the lines. Discover the story.
:- Doug.
It may be good to not know too soon what message is coming through me.
:- Doug.
Why are we not living? We are dulled, our edges removed, as we are tossed around in the mixing machine of life. Yet it is not life that does this to us, but we allow it to happen. We could live. We could leave our near gifts for others and do our true gifts. Do ourselves.
:- Doug.
I could relax into the idea of not knowing. Unknowing going…. Even going on a podium. It is a shared podium, belonging to us all, this earth.
:- Doug.
Perhaps I do not know because of how far-ranging my message is. From G to end of life to living universe to conversing to flow to everything is moving to ripping the grey cloth to meditation/contemplation to wholeness to healing to the all there is to conflict and concord….
:- Doug.
Maybe the message is that we are large, and our largeness is in that still small whisper we carry around and float within.
:- Doug.