Why do we “pay?”
Why do we “pay” visits?
:- Doug.
Spirit is that gossamer stuff that weaves souls together.
:- Doug.
Archive for December, 2020
Talk back to Plato?
Would you agree it is a felt change of consciousness to suppose one might converse back and forth with people of 300 years hence? And yet that is one thing my poetry proposes might be possible. I don’t know but we won’t know if nobody tries. Do you sometimes talk back to Plato or Montaigne, to Blake or Aristotle?
:- Doug.
Braids and twists
Our story is best woven in community: ever gathering more voices and fingers, braids and twists, laughter and tears, dreams and their mysterious truths.
:- Doug.
Specific ways humanicity?
In what specific areas could humanity get better? In what ways does history show this generation acting in 2021 could have improved our humanity?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2000–Softly–hardly
Footprints in the Windsm # 2000
Aren’t we the pair?
I talk softly
You hear hardly
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In the name of the rain
In the name of the rain
and of the lightning
and of the rumble, Amen!
:- Doug.
In the name of the juice
In the name of the juice
and of the conversing
and of the storm, Amen!
:- Doug.
World collapses
This world of the eleventh generation is so much vaster than I have imagined, and yet it will be lived as smaller than it could. When we open the box, worlds collapse like the possibilities for Shrödinger’s cat. The cat must escape. Our task is to map escape routes.
:- Doug.
Ride complexity
How does complexity take us to a bigger world? How can it not? A brain has more surface area than the skull that holds it, an intestine more length that would seem able to fit in the abdomen, a mind more worlds than the galaxy that contains it. The macrocosm might be microcosm. Turn.
:- Doug.
Write as if I don’t know
Write as if I don’t know what this person will say. Because I don’t.
:- Doug.
One single change
Start with one single change in technology, life, or politics over 300 years and apply it to an issue of today stewed in all its complexity.
:- Doug.
A beautiful buck on that ridge
Beyond seeing a bigger picture, we (the eleventh generation grandchildren and I) need to help us see the periphery and edges, and what we cannot see. “There’s a beautiful buck on that ridge” my brother-in-law said to his grandchild, “but we cannot take the shot: we know there are houses in that direction and our shot endangers them.” What we cannot see is real. It can be affected by our choices, can and should affect us. Grandchild, it is about vision and hearing, sniffing and feeling, tasting and imagining—a whole lot about imagining.
:- Doug.
When I say now
Friend, I am seeing a larger world here and now. When I say now, spirit arrives, class starts, love is possible.
:- Doug.
Tell me of your oceans
Tell me of your oceans, your waters, weather, and winds, and your dreams of these.
:- Doug.
Somehow motive
Spirit is somehow motive—the principle that gets one moving. It pushes. It pulls.
:- Doug.
Its other leg
Spirit does not oppose the physical—is probably not its contrary either—rather is more its complement, its other leg we use to stand, to walk.
:- Doug.
More knotted than
I could give my ideas for loosening but life is more knotted than I can know. Better to ask your ideas, so to grow.
:- Doug.
