What spoken words do
Spoken words conceal us
allow us to lie
Spoken words reveal
something new to us
we had not expected to say
nor had we ever thought
Spoken words accept no edits
:- Doug.
Archive for November, 2020
Finding our dreams
The work is finding our dreams. In reverie, exploring, expanding, growing, re-shaping them. Opening.
Does opening a dream open the dreamer?
Oh, to be a child again, dreaming the clouds floating overhead of a summer’s day! We can! We can!
:- Doug.
larger world than metaphor
Dream is a larger world than metaphor, a pointing out of concrete similarities, a way to communicate a mere concept.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1994–In the drenching Light
Footprints in the Windsm # 1994
The Light I am experiencing today is drenching. It is pouring down upon Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, upon Donald Trump and Michael Pence, upon the poll workers faithfully still counting votes, upon the whole country, and each state, and upon this dream called the United States of America. It is saturating the ground of each part of this country, it is rising up to our toes. Slowly it is rising to my soles and heels and ankles. Soon it will reach our calves. It is Light of warmth and calm. Drenched are we.
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and bites
I am discovering (inventing?) that not only characters and plot need antagonism, pressure, dilemma, and sub-text, but so do metaphors. This gives them life and reality: we see ourselves and our wrestling with our ways. What is the whole metaphor? It is certainly more than the pretty little thing we can mold with our hand. It is alive, and bites.
:- Doug.
Milk also
When you find an image find also the contraries and sub-texts enfolded. Milk is white; it is also sweet. Again it hides by way of its opacity; clogs with its fat. Nourishes; stains. Seek the complete, the other in the familiar, the against. Go further to the dilemma, the vile.
:- Doug.
Pillowcase universe
To invert subject and universe would have one say “I” for universe, and “universe” for me. A pillowcase, turn your mind—the cosmos—inside out.
:- Doug.
Attend to generations
Just as Quaker worship is about silently attending for the messages of divinity, so we can attend to the generations.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1993–This election/vote love
Footprints in the Windsm # 1993
This election
Vote love
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Circular
Circular
the universe
of roots of trees
their branches
of cumulus clouds
of flocks of clouds
and birds
of shapes of planets
and their orbits
the reach of my thinking
and probably yours
the gathering of our peoples
and our conversations
even when
I think
I do not hear
the returning arc
:- Doug.
Now we argue about
We used to argue about money
Now we argue about safety in covid time
Always about something lacking, we thought
:- Doug.
