What did you do outdoors growing up?
What did you do outdoors growing up? What do our grandchildren do? What is the role of the wild in human soul-spirit-self development?
:- Doug.
Archive for February, 2017
Footprints in the Windsm # 1672–Gunsmoke
Footprints in the Windsm # 1672
While I was eating last night, one diner kept telling people his elation at the day’s political news. One guy he was talking to said that there might be a change in state law to allow “someone like me” to carry a concealed weapon without a license. At that, this diner got up with his back turned to me, and held open one side of his coat.
This frightened me. What is it about this quiet Thai restaurant that makes someone so afraid he must carry a weapon? How much does the presence of a weapon increase the chances of gunsmoke? Or bravado leading to gunplay?
I don’t think I want to go to that restaurant again, nor perhaps even that town.
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Co-arising
Co-arising
co emerging
co implicating explicating
co constellating
interdependent
interbeing
are we
:- Doug.
Agnostic about something
We’re all agnostic
about something
particularly things about God
Does God
ever have details?
:- Doug.
Actually, we don’t live in our heads
We tell ourselves we live in our heads
when it’s mainly our stomachs
or wallets
:- Doug.
Mistake to call us “older adults”
Don’t make the mistake of calling us “older adults” for we are more than adults grown older: we are in a different development of life—psychologically, and for some of us, spiritually.
:- Doug.
When you see something this week
When you see something this week, ask yourself What is this like? Where have I seen something similar? Of what story does it remind me?
:- Doug.
Organizing he said is the answer
Organizing he said is the answer
doing away with interest she said
the idiots deserve their turn I offered
but we’re all looking
too shallow
when we could be looking
at the heart
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1671–It takes a whole life to die
Footprints in the Windsm # 1671
It takes a whole life to die.
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and yet
You are different from turtle
turtle different from fish
from bird from cactus
from sun and moon and
all stars
and yet
there is a pattern
:- Doug.
to eat corn off the cob
One may eat corn off the cob row-wise or all around, and it will taste sweet either way. Four-footed brothers: namaste.
:- Doug.
well then that’s a good
If I write a thought that’s old to me
in a way that helps you see afresh
well then that’s a good
:- Doug.
