Archive for August, 2020

A why to write poetry

Maybe you don’t need a reason
A why to write poetry
Poetry may be why enough

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 31st, 2020 | No Comments »

Curiosity working on you

Poetry is curiosity working on you.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 31st, 2020 | No Comments »

Curiosity pen

Curiosity is our pen

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 31st, 2020 | No Comments »

Friendly fascinating

What fascinates
about your self and friends
and their worlds in covid time?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 31st, 2020 | No Comments »

Fascinating hues

Be fascinated by the person’s actions; run away from binary thinking to shades and tints and hues.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 31st, 2020 | No Comments »

Covid play?

How can covid times help us create, invent, and play with our friends?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 30th, 2020 | No Comments »

Wizened bird

All-hearing all-seeing drone up in the sky
Re-examine events yes but also the poet
For the wizened bird here’s poetry’s role

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 30th, 2020 | No Comments »

So poetry?

What are the “So thats” of writing poetry?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 30th, 2020 | No Comments »

Scary word

My purpose is to ask us to think bigger, and that requires we use our imaginations—together. Together here is a scary word.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 30th, 2020 | No Comments »

need the sparks

It’s not that this is wrong
It’s that we need the sparks

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 30th, 2020 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1978–Breezes steering a hot air balloon

Footprints in the Windsm # 1978

Like the breezes affecting a hot air balloon are we in covid-time. We know which way the wind is blowing at ground level and higher; we know the afternoon thermals can lift us if we look for them; we can loosely control altitude (attitude); and we can see what we can see, whether it is what we wanted to see or not.

A lovely metaphor, but what’s it mean? How do we look into the future? To start: from here. What trends do we see, how are the people around us reacting to covid? What are they doing in response? Covid, like all life is likely to be a ratchet: no going back. For instance, we have learned some things about distance working, and will not forget those. Can’t keep us down on the farm. We have learned some things about caring for one another, seeing “their” world a bit clearer, and so “ours.” We have seen some things about our denial, our anger, our unwillingness to work through cabin fever. How will these affect what we do in the after covid times?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on August 29th, 2020 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1977–covid hold

Footprints in the Windsm # 1977

In COVID-19 time we think we are not in real living, not in the real world. We walk through our days as though on hold. Waiting to live like we did before. Wasting nows. Wasting life.


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Published in: Conversations | on August 23rd, 2020 | No Comments »

Poetry is a state of mind

Poetry is a state of mind
Seeing

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 21st, 2020 | No Comments »

Talking with friends

When you talk with your customers/referrers/patients/friends, what vulnerabilities do they exhibit? What are you doing to address them?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 21st, 2020 | No Comments »

In the war?

“Gram, what did you do in the COVID-19 war?”

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 21st, 2020 | No Comments »

Feel vulnerable now?

In what ways do you feel vulnerable now? To what extent vulnerable, say on a 1-10 scale?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 21st, 2020 | No Comments »

Bigger work?

What is your work in the world? What is a bigger view of that? Bigger still?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 20th, 2020 | No Comments »

After the white water?

What happens after a paradigm shift? What happens after the white water? What happens after the moments of sheer terror and before the stretches of utter boredom?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 20th, 2020 | No Comments »

Say a word?

Elders can get busy seeing the directions. For humanity. For clients. Have we ever seen a friend lost, and we saw how the foundering was playing out? Did we work out a way for us to say a word? What word could we?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 20th, 2020 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1976–fell in deep

Footprints in the Windsm # 1976

I fell into a deep book.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on August 19th, 2020 | No Comments »

Responding to shifting paradigms

How do people respond to paradigm shifts? After the shifts? What are the stages of the shifts?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 19th, 2020 | No Comments »

Nurture inklings

Honor your inklings; spend time nurturing them; help them fully express themselves.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 19th, 2020 | No Comments »

2020 opportunity?

Will we use the opportunity
of this 2020
to see more clearly?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 19th, 2020 | No Comments »
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