You’re seeing
Tell me what you’re seeing.
:- Doug.
What will move me off my position?
:- Doug.
Archive for January, 2018
Can work new
We are not given to know another fully
So that imagination can work
New in both of us
:- Doug.
Give out your energy
Give out your energy. Expand, not contract. Conflict circles the drain when we contract. Giving our energy, our opening, can open the inter-relating.
:- Doug.
Nerves and calm
That’s the nerves in conflict: we don’t know what the outcome will be. That’s the calm available in conflict: we don’t know what the outcome will be, but know that together we can find it. The first we see all harm, closing in on us; the second, all possibility we can open.
:- Doug.
See together?
Hear out the other person, get to their depths, the emotions at least. Then see what we can see together, what path make?
:- Doug.
Turn and face
Turn and face the same direction as the other person. See what I can discover and hear of their wishes, desires, and aims. Not merely what I think they are or ought to be. Go with them down their path and hear. Roll, blend, flow, deflect—don’t push back.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1753–Grandchildren should be heard
Footprints in the Windsm # 1753
Grandchildren should be seen and especially heard.
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insides of our species
In studying eldering we are glimpsing the insides of humanity fully developing: not the insides of individuals but of our species: how together we pulse, breathe, and flow.
:- Doug.
dry day spiritually
This feels like a dry day spiritually. These days are necessary. Spirit is not a feeling: it sits with us when the days are dry and the winds do not stir, showing us to sit with one another in those days too.
:- Doug.
Who is safe?
Rather than let them keep us safe in old peoples’ storage, let us work to make our grandchildren safe.
:- Doug.
Back on itself
Persons amongst each other are in flow. We do well to notice and see, to go with the river rather that try to turn it back on itself.
:- Doug.
Shifting eyes
How do we get someone to allow there might be another view? We cannot, of course. We can only speak their language and call up their fundamental motivations, to the extent we know them. We can point up perhaps that there are many different possibilities. In the end, it is up to them to open. We can only invite. We can stand next to them and see what they see, then invite a shifting of the eyes. Perhaps it is best to not shift too many degrees at once. What can that mean?
:- Doug.
Invite, beckon
People are—
and as much as that
—they are moving
See people as streams; what we see as solid are snapshots, annual balance sheets, ancient history. Other people around touch, bump, stir. Ethically we must avoid spinning them the way we think is right, for how can we know? We can invite and beckon, but ought not constrain, nor manipulate.
:- Doug.
