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Be the mystery
Saying, I flow
Waters, I am

:- Doug.

See your breathing
expanding the space
around you dancing

:- Doug.

Open space
not for possibility
for possibilities
not for number alone
for things smacking
you in the face
unpredictably

:- Doug.

Especially when I am assailed by many and varied thoughts, the more I am able to let them out of my grasp, the more the water of my meditation runs clear.

:- Doug.

Water in the sky
Darkens our day
Preparing to rain
Grass in our mouths
Oil too in transported meats
Greenland melts in our exhaust
Look: our world is quite strange

:- Doug.

Our nature is both persistent body and change: the greater of these is change. Eventually our bodies decompose; our changes are ever changing. It is to be sure harder to embrace change. To be sure is never granted in our world. We want to rest, to arrive, to grasp stability. We can have that (for a time) if we do not become attached to it.

:- Doug.

We are convinced by pain. Especially another’s.

:- Doug.

Into pain’s depths
our tears the priming
for the cool clear hope

:- Doug.

Bring light.

:- Doug.

Aging = growing

:- Doug.

Aging is no disease
We older
Can grow

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1630

Glimpses, guesses, and gestures
have we
no matter how sure we feel today

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To the world I appear….
To myself I….

:- Doug.

We have to stop thinking of aging as a disease. Curing something that is good and natural: is this the best thing?

:- Doug.

Perhaps, just perhaps, the world is going both directions: down to a terrible abyss; up to a brighter future. It depends on us, and we are pulling in both, really in all, directions.

:- Doug.

Friend into your holy here now.

:- Doug.

There is much to do, we cannot know the outcome, still we can add our bit of gratitude and peace and love.

:- Doug.

The god of war holds us as in his grasp, the whole world, sister and brother. Still the darkness cannot overcome the light. We are privileged to be here now. To bring that of light.

:- Doug.

Fractal is the spiral
of opening
of conversing
of loving
this work widens
from turn to turn to turn
fractal the spiral

:- Doug.

The religion beyond religions
The love beyond love
We find we have

:- Doug.

The old truck had a bumper sticker: “Give war a chance.” Mom told us It takes all kinds. How do we love “even” those? What’s in the human heart that finds kin in war? What’s in us? Are we attached to the notion of peace and know not peace itself?

:- Doug.

Self awareness means self-creating.

:- Doug.

To approach no ego, zero,
is to enter the space of all
possibility

:- Doug.