Freeing
We can open our space to sustenance for each, to freeing all, to conversing wholly, holy.
:- Doug.
Archive for February, 2018
Spirit and flesh
One can be in spirit and flesh simultaneously. See, hear, flow from many directions.
:- Doug.
it has to work
I do not know the message of Camus’s A Happy Death. Perhaps it has to work on me.
:- Doug.
Capture the little daemon
Capture the little daemon. Before he gets away. Captured, you can put him to work. Carry a card and write down your glimpses, insights, and inklings. More profound they are and practical than you’d guess.
:- Doug.
Oh, to float lazily
Oh, to float lazily like these few snowflakes. What care have they except to fall, to fly ahead of the breezes, to land softly and lie still, to accumulate, to be? To melt, to evaporate, to know only they are of the process?
:- Doug.
Your throbbing heart
Your throbbing heart, your respiration, is part of the world’s breathing and turning, winds and rains, flowings of streams and waters. You are part of flow itself.
:- Doug.
TSP
Eldering is at once theoretical, spiritual, and practical: it aims us towards a better working world.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1760–When young
Footprints in the Windsm # 1760
When young
there is plenty of time laterWhen seasoned
time washesTime later
starts to course into
time now
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Picture elder years?
How do we picture elder years? If we reflect on the television ads for investment and life insurance companies, we see images of sailboats, golfing, and travel. These reveal a deep-seated mythos: the life of the elder grows larger.
These images are, like photographic negatives, reversed. Truly elders are concerned not as much with the world they take in, as with the world they expand for the grandchildren.
:- Doug.
A small-large task:
For the grandchildren is about engaging the grandchildren in a small-large task: making a world.
:- Doug.
Ever including
Your can-play-dom be opening wider, your dream be dreaming us bigger, your community be ever including.
:- Doug.
Where is your spirit?
Where is your spirit today? Where do you want it to be? What new insights have you gained in your play with death?
:- Doug.
If I get agitated
If I get agitated by some event, then change my attention, deliberately look elsewhere and more widely. Look beyond my own shrinking. The agitation is amorphous, a virus blob, closing in: so breathe, lift your eyes. Work on something else. Help somebody.
:- Doug.
a few to renew
We do not need many elderlings: just a few who mediate between the spirit of the times and the grandchildren, and we renew.
:- Doug.
The spirit of the times
The spirit of the times is tending toward separation, isolation, and hate. This spirit infects our public and private dialogue. Yet two years ago, the spirit was more opening, helping, loving. We are in this spirit. Every word, prayer, and even thought we allow to carry us affects this spirit of the times, effects it. So in a world where local and global are right here, in us, we can set wholeness in motion. Gathering, and also loosening: wholeness, all parts need to be heard, accepted as part of us. Us.
:- Doug.
