Archive for June, 2018

Words for the numinous

Words for the numinous proceed from intent to expand.

:- Doug.

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When I was a poet

Footprints in the Windsm # 1792

When I was a poet
maybe I am just now
was when the poems
sang their lives through me
they don’t all lift me there
but when they evoke the spray
I go to sea the wild sea


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Think further

Think further, For the Grandchildren.

:- Doug.

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A proposal for police

A proposal: take from police guns and fast cars.

:- Doug.

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The real action

The real action For the Grandchildren is in the reaches of the interpersonal, the transpersonal, the morphological.

:- Doug.

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Reach exceed humanity’s grasp

Your reach should exceed
humanity’s grasp
or what’s an elder for?

Stretch yourself
stretch us all
to a human size

:- Doug.

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It all sings

There is poetry
major and minor
bad and good
notice well
it all sings

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2018 | No Comments »

Integral contraries

As we discover ways to the integrality of contraries, we can leave clues and maybe whole maps, so that when grandchildren reach this opening in their lives, they may find their way more quickly and go further than we, and in surprising directions.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2018 | No Comments »

One essence contraries

One essence of the work For the Grandchildren is to be able to make contraries (cf Blake) integral to one another.

:- Doug.

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One of my peak experiences

Poetry writing is one of my peak experiences.

:- Doug.

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It is more

It is more
than finding heart and soul
it is growing evolving
humanity’s grandchildren
root stem flower bee seed
It is more
It is more

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2018 | No Comments »

Out past the sky

Through the leaves
Out past the sky
Across elusive sills
Play among
The grandchildren

:- Doug.

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Einstein’s circle of compassion

Albert Einstein’s famous quote about optical delusions, ends with him saying “This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” Is the task of the elders For the Grandchildren something akin to this “Widening our circle of compassion?”

:- Doug.

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Send kindly thoughts

Send kindly thoughts
open a kindly conversation

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Windsm # 1791–Our society is divisive because

Footprints in the Windsm # 1791

Our society is divisive because we are thinking in shoulds and oughts. What might entice us to look for integral?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 27th, 2018 | No Comments »

Ways to be touched

Complexity seems to have a place too, an overarching place. For we know grandchildren and elders, sky and small critters, are all complex. Yet somehow are we all knowable. Complexity, rather than making all unapproachable, gives us innumerable ways to be touched.

:- Doug.

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Choose the right restaurant

It’s more important to go and meet than to choose the right restaurant.

:- Doug.

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Given an opportunity

Given an opportunity
—to elder—
for the grandchildren
many are called
few have chosen

:- Doug.

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Bluster, bluster everywhere

Bluster, bluster everywhere
And not a stop to think

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2018 | No Comments »

If the weather stopped?

What if the weather stopped
like on this foggy morn
we might no longer live

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 26th, 2018 | No Comments »

Reading Maslow is itself a peak experience!

Reading Maslow is itself a peak experience!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 26th, 2018 | No Comments »

Getting up decides me

I don’t decide to get up; getting up decides me.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 26th, 2018 | No Comments »

Momentary peak experiences

It is the task of our course to give us momentary peak experiences to perceive reality more truly than in ordinary hours.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 26th, 2018 | No Comments »
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