In making trouble
In making trouble
remain: in the near moment
spirit liberates
:- Doug.
Catch glimpse the meaningful
absolute truth does not exist
open to impossibility
:- Doug.
Archive for February, 2018
These are sacred
Community, conversation, and change are sacred. Because grandchildren are sacred.
:- Doug.
Key: responsibility
Key: we have a responsibility to the grandchildren. Otherwise, are we going to ashcan all that experience, emptiness, and vulnerability?
:- Doug.
What grandchildren are
We all know what grandchildren are—or do we?
Grandchildren can be 88 years old
Grandchildren can be prophets and poets
Grandchildren can be feral and vicious
Grandchildren can be us
:- Doug.
Initiate the grandchildren
Elders initiate the grandchildren into larger and larger worlds.
:- Doug.
Teach emptiness
Emptiness is what a grand has to teach: paying attention to the truth of the moment; not needing anything to be learned. Learning always happens.
:- Doug.
Six degrees
Six degrees of separation: what if this applied to the shields that separate us one from another? Tell us 6 times who you are. Besides that, who are you? I am she who….
:- Doug.
How do you feel?
How do you feel about the world the grandchildren are entering? How do you feel about where the environment is headed, chemicals, drugs, patterns of consumption, how people participate in the economy?
:- Doug.
For the grandchildren work
For the grandchildren work necessarily enters into feeling hopeless, lost, vulnerable, despairing.
:- Doug.
Between those grandchildren
The betweens are we
Between those grandchildren and these
Between the looking out and the being seen
Between the worlds before and after
Between the boot and the starway
:- Doug.
Death happiness?
Can our death be blessing—happiness? I glimpsed that death for most of us can be a blessing, in the sense of a happy making experience. A time of completion, of whole-making.
:- Doug.
