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I have, we all have
embodied the tension among
wholeness and fragmentation
I want to give my real self in love
I want to earn my living and a bit more
which way to lean?
balance is safe
is life, ought it be, safe?
eventually life is used up
so I must choose to teach
which way to lean!

:- Doug.

What did Owen Barfield say about spell? I was thinking of Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry. Probably also mixing that with The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram, which probably does not use the term negatively. I have reference to page 291 of Capra’s Web of Life. Capra was referring to the Hindu maya, the spell of the magic play that our minds put on, which is not the reality, but only a reality. Barfield I think uses idolatry to describe our inclination to turn what we see (our literalness) into the reality.

:- Doug.

I need to speak up for visioning.

:- Doug.

I need to validate my own work—to myself.

:- Doug.

Older folks need space to envision
their lives past and future
their meaning and legacy
are we facilitating
and validating their work?

:- Doug.

How do I tease out another’s vision
If I cannot find my own?

:- Doug.

Any great speaker only
gives us memory stuff
things thought and done in past
ideas well considered
funeral orations
we could be birthing
memory kills the child

:- Doug.

Even if we are not the experts we can imagine and envision; that, activated, is far more valuable.

:- Doug.

All knowledge is provisional.

:- Doug.

The truest courage
to be the truest you

:- Doug.