growing smaller
We may grow out of small things, sperm and egg, although we are not made of them; rather the small is an outgrowth of the whole. The larger whole, the body, is imprinted on the cells, and they grow from that not to that.
:- Doug.
Archive for September, 2015
A bridge to audacity
When I am speaking and conveying, the frustration I feel in not being able is not just me, it is the world resisting capture. What I can do is pick a little piece of it at which to hint.
This may be a big help. It is a bridge to the audacity to continue.
:- Doug.
Content myself with pointing out features
I will have to content myself with pointing out features of the real world, knowing that there can be no picture of the world: only the world can describe the world.
:- Doug.
words will never
words will never
be life
subtractions abstractions
words are
from reality
ever smaller
ever less
:- Doug.
no words only birds
Traveling to where
there are no words only birds
rains snows and dances
:- Doug.
“of which all matter is made?”
What if the subatomic particles “of which all matter is made” were the other way around? These non-things are the end case, made of the larger matter, like an arm grows out of a body? Matter ephemeralizes, is a non-thing, disappears, appears? Matter, space, and energy interwoven? The small the outgrowth of the large?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1537–Hear the waters as they roar
Footprints in the Windsm # 1537
Recline here floating
through and among
the breezesThe air, betimes,
takes a deep breath
of usHear the waters as they roar
and fall rush
and babble lay flat
and low over miles
—it is music—
it is you, it is you
Please pass it on.
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What right do your Mom and Dad have
What right do your Mom and Dad have to be supported in their later years? What is the source of that right?
:- Doug.
Blake saw a company of angels
Blake saw a company of angels
this our quanta of energy
from and around the sun
the light between the grassy leaves
look to not through or with this
:- Doug.
Can you catch yourself
Can you catch yourself
observing yourself
doing something?
Can you catch the world
welling up?
:- Doug.
demonstrating
Every time he opens his mouth he demonstrates the size of his ego and of his disdain for all other people in the world.
:- Doug.
Rich little boy with mighty ego
Rich little boy with mighty ego out to buy a new toy—the White House. What are we to do when he loses interest? With three years still to go?
:- Doug.
