Archive for March, 2017

How ought we die?

How ought we die
but lovingly?

:- Doug.

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Dyingly

Artfully, artfully
screamingly, kickingly
expansively
there must be 50 ways
dyingly

:- Doug.

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Ways to approach dying–

Ways to approach dying—
with silent screaming
as consuming medical challenge
seeing hounds approaching
as spiritual exercise
as making great art
expanding circles

:- Doug.

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Complex or complicated

Complex is one thing—life is complex, inter-plaited. Complicated is a whole other unnecessary thing.

:- Doug.

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Quit your job

I once had a class called Quit your job, get on with your calling. Now that is really the key life question, yes? The tension between eating and doing the big thing, between grabbing and loving, between earth and heaven. We humans are the ones to work that through in living our lives large and small.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 30th, 2017 | No Comments »

Ways to pay

I help people work through their end of life questions, and I help them find ways to pay for a place like this—or even a nursing home—without becoming paupers.

:- Doug.

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The big hows

I help people with the big hows at the end of life: how they will get on, how they will pay for it, how they will complete a meaningful life.

:- Doug.

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clubbing

I reject the use of religion as a club.

:- Doug.

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As in breathing

As in breathing
One must take in as
Much as one gives out

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Windsm # 1681–Even if it is never read

Footprints in the Windsm # 1681

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Published in: Conversations | on March 29th, 2017 | No Comments »

All-drama prima donna

We’ve had “No-drama Obama.” Now we have “All-drama prima donna.”

:- Doug.

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The questions

I bring the questions.

:- Doug.

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Not from the front

The important words to be spoken tonight come not from the front of the room but from all over the room—that is from every one of you. In your conversations.

:- Doug.

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Holy spinning

Friend, into your holy spinning.

:- Doug.

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Here and there

Humans are given to do something here and something there in their days. Here is physical with others. There is ephemeral, eternal, of the invisible important.

:- Doug.

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Not do it

The devil made me not do it.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 28th, 2017 | No Comments »

All of us

All of us bring conversation.

:- Doug.

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Bring conversation

We bring conversation.

:- Doug.

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Noses fit

Generally speaking people’s noses fit their faces.

:- Doug.

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To meet is to shift

To meet is to shift is to love.

:- Doug.

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Love moves

Love moves

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 27th, 2017 | No Comments »

Holy is process

Holy is process

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 27th, 2017 | No Comments »

More prime

Is two more prime than one or three?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 27th, 2017 | No Comments »
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