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Time may be
a straight line
a spiral
unfolding enfolding lapping
discontinuous
non-existent
ultimately inconsequential

:- Doug.

Time is the action of people.

:- Doug.

New Year’s—our time of reflection
shallow it is—fitting only for
our physical technological unseeing age

:- Doug.

Love is work
Always with defect
Always completing

:- Doug.

The winds are entwining
winds and breaths and spirits
what is joined let no one sunder

:- Doug.

The hedgerow is Rose of Sharon
One hundred yards away
Branches, lives with your eye untangle

:- Doug.

empty myself of me
open space for you

:- Doug.

Grey skies have blown in with the wind.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1669

Linux is filled with playfulness
Take two programs that do about the same thing
one is called more
the other less
the one that does more is less

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This is what I am seeking when I change out words: a change out of worlds. Stepping onto a new planet space-time, where we can each be heroes and heroines, where we can give our all away, wring out every last drop for truth, beauty, and good. Why? These are the profound ways we are there with one another for joy and grief and trial.

:- Doug.

I am pulled by this idea of poetry being about surprise, major surprise, not mere prettiness. I hesitate to call it beauty for there is profundity there as well. Beauty surprises as well. Truth, too.

:- Doug.

Not any surprise
says the poet—
a felt change of worlds

:- Doug.

All our life depends
so, you there—help it along
give it away—all!

:- Doug.

Work waits on others’
info signature review
all our life depends

:- Doug.

Now’s the time to think of end of life stuff—while you can be clear-headed and not under pressure to make too-fast decisions.

:- Doug.

A number is right
or wrong with a defined start
and end unlike you

:- Doug.

Can we help each other, care for one another? That is the thing.

:- Doug.

Constricted I was from the emotional upheaval. The path to open? It seems to have been: something new to attend; a change in tasks; sitting in a different chair; reading a different book; some sleep between. Looking someplace else.

: -Doug.

Fear not for your pet ideas, that they be strange to us. Strange also is an opening. Some it will crack. Maybe you. You’re going to die anyway, why not from some mighty change you brought to us?

:- Doug.

Open to us your best, in large and small ways, whatever presents to you.

:- Doug.

Felt change in consciousness is love. To bring about this surprise is to bring the surprise of love. Love may not be normal; love is the miracle; still love is an everyday available miracle. The task is to wake up the world with the surprise of love. We are meant to be heroes, to show up with all of us, our creativity and freshness cracking open the shell. Dust accumulates, shells accrete. Get cracking! Open to us the best of you, your good edge.

:- Doug.

So I practice open space: it is never second nature, never complete. It can never be complete, for whatever the edge, there is opening available. The path to open is set down to meet our feet. The path to love is set down to meet our hearts. When you tell me I was not perfect in opening, you have shown me openings available to me. I will not fret, nor feel guilty, I will feel blessed by your lovingkindness.

:- Doug.

Open is a word for love: when we open the doors of perception and can see another, can see from another’s place, we can care for one another. I see you is an ancient African word for hello, an ancient human word for I take you in, I welcome you, I will do for you. Always you, all ways love.

:- Doug.