Die to live
It’s looking like we
must die to live
but we’d better
die well before we die
so we live alive
:- Doug.
Archive for February, 2017
A bigger answer
The world has changed. No longer can we say get busy and grow your own garden, get help from your neighbors: people in the city do not have land for a garden, nor neighbors they know. There needs to be a bigger answer than just sending each to her or his own devices which are too small to make any difference. “Get a job” you can say, but if there are no jobs? “Start a business,” but if imagination has died? “Go, be warmed and filled,” and you do not give them the things needed? Consider James 2:16 if you are of that heart.
:- Doug.
Health care is a safety issue for the whole of the country
If you do not have health care, and do nothing when you get sick, you spread your germs and my community is at risk. Health care is a community health issue, a safety issue for the whole of the country.
:- Doug.
validates all
Being validates all
Pride and suffering
Control and tragedy
Indifference and self-giving
Perfect knowledge and living which annihilates it
:- Doug.
Presence is related to Being
Presence is related to Being
Presence is Being
To all is Presence
:- Doug.
yet time is not flux
Moving, everything is
yet time is not flux
time is human’s way to measure
measure is once or twice removed
from real
:- Doug.
movement with and against
The essence of life
is conversation, meeting:
movement with and against
:- Doug.
You cannot pray until you have laughed:
You cannot pray until you have laughed: laughter opens.
:- Doug.
White sky morning or blue sky morning?
White sky morning or blue sky morning?
Often here white upon white
A color of blessings, of water, the stuff of life
:- Doug.
Think you understand the trickster?
Think you understand the trickster before you have been tricked?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1670–I like butterflies
Footprints in the Windsm # 1670
I like butterflies. Not only beautiful, they are effective at the same time. They show us work can be beauty and grace.
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The world is not as small as
The world is not as small as money nor health nor even what we make of it.
:- Doug.
Even when the fundamentalist does not accept me
Here is an interesting challenge for me: I cannot agree with a fundamentalist conception of God. My notion of divinity has grown larger. The puzzle is that the true world includes both and so I must accept both. Even if the fundamentalist does not accept me.
:- Doug.
But we’re about caring
We have smart people. We work hard. We know some things. But we’re about caring.
:- Doug.
Caring is what you give
Care is what corporate sells. Caring is what you give your patients, your own elders: a piece of you. Caring is what we give, too. We are about caring.
:- Doug.
If time does not exist
If time does not exist
nor matter
goals
nor ego
only the smoke dispersing in wind
:- Doug.
