to be alive stand in the rain
To be alive stand in rain stay and be here in these woods standing witness
:- Doug.
Archive for August, 2022
And then we die
Conceived
and then we die
in between
pass it on
pass it on
life’s agreement
with life
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2165–Get over themselves
Footprints in the Windsm # 2165
How does humanity get over themselves?
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In a lush garden
In a lush garden
In the silence
And the singing
With hands in the earth
In the aroma of humus
This conversation brings us
To our knees
:- Doug.
Hear what cannot be spoken
Gather together
Ready yourselves
To hear
What cannot be spoken
To rise up on wings
:- Doug.
Something we barely intuit?
What are our stances in conversation? To give or to get? Or something more, something we barely intuit?
:- Doug.
Meet as persons
We’re here on this blue marble, each of us, to allow the other to meet more of the world as persons.
:- Doug.
Naming asks something
Naming is more than claiming for yourself or the other certain qualities and powers: it is asking for a relationship.
:- Doug.
Harvest the sweet
When we harvest the sweet conversation we can know there will be more. O harvester, you stimulate!
So there are some things going on beneath the audible and visible and tangible conversation. Can we ever know all of it? Is it even good to leave some things unknown? What all have we missed?
Disturbing is beneficent.
:- Doug.
Every one cost someone’s life
Just about every conversation we have cost someone’s life. Consider the potato, the fish, the cow. Consider how opening ourselves threatens us.
:- Doug.
Asking for its fruit?
Can we, regularly, approach a conversation and perhaps even work within one, asking for its fruit?
:- Doug.
Each fragile, we
We are each fragile, just in different ways and at different times. Be kind.
:- Doug.
Between the notes
Pablo Casals is said to have said “Music is what happens between the notes.” Call it music, call it softness, call it conflagration. We can give heed between the stars, between the people, between the conversations.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2164–Already whole
Footprints in the Windsm # 2164
Conversation heals
Conversation makes whole
Wholes can ever
Become more whole
You are whole
Already
You can be more whole
Our culture can be more whole
The living community about us
More whole
Conversation heals
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Footprints in the Windsm # 2163–Waters do not forget
Footprints in the Windsm # 2163
The waters of conversation do not forget their responsibility. Put out a pitcher. Share something to hydrate as well as bread to break.
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