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Is the meeting place of doing and being active love?

:- Doug.

If some of you conversations come to you through your imagination, so what? If they open you out, show you beauty or truth, or help you find a good path, who’s to say?

:- Doug.

Don’t start a relationship with any old grandchild, even any old grandchild elder. Find the few who want to go similar directions as yours.

:- Doug.

Just start out and keep going. Something you write might be of use to someone sometime.

:- Doug.

In 300 years, what kind of clothes will people wear? What colors will they see we cannot? What shoes will they wear?

:- Doug.

My poems you will not comprehend
I may have when I penned them
Even so they carry their opus

:- Doug.

How engender a humanity
and allow them their creativity?
How envision the yet unseen?
Except to hourly create our own?
Must we die? Yes

:- Doug.

To see these far off people
To normalize

:- Doug.

Hear softly

:- Doug.

Subtly, subtly
attend

:- Doug.

Leave something for the 200 year people to create!

:- Doug.

How to get something ambiguous, different for each imagination, to show up concrete?

:- Doug.

What does 300 years from now look like? Describe in details and particulars.

:- Doug.

Why you? Because you will do it.

:- Doug.

Mark the trail the way
you did not choose
wink

:- Doug.

The fullness of the moment
is hard and easy to see

:- Doug.

Maybe a way to describe a good humanity is to describe one gone astray.

:- Doug.

Meditation is choice. Choose thoughts or breath. Choose then or here.

:- Doug.

We can start a rhyme
or a rhythm
we can ring temple bells
as long as we lightly hold
the bells will sound

:- Doug.

Old thoughts are old
new thinking is hard
fruit unplanted grows bitter

:- Doug.

What bell was rung 300 years ago you feel today?

:- Doug.

Temple bells
ringing longer
than you hear

:- Doug.

Sometimes the wrinkles come to this part of the cloth.

:- Doug.