A thickening!
A deepening? A thickening!
:- Doug.
A deepening? A thickening!
:- Doug.
Incongruity sits at the base of much humor, fun, and conversation, grinning.
:- Doug.
Experiment in curiosity.
:- Doug.
How to help someone who’s surviving?
:- Doug.
What do we talk about while we’re dying?
:- Doug.
Once we have opened space, we cumulate it by conversing.
:- Doug.
Worlds opening
our joy
in conversation
:- Doug.
Boring conversations might just be productive. Perhaps they lead to reverie, or other good places. Perhaps we simply need to have times that are not productive for some organic reason.
:- Doug.
Surviving is an on-going task.
:- Doug.
Some things don’t have to be true. Only point you on. Any direction.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2230
The metaphorier
the marry-er (and the more children)
the tarry-er
the dare-ier
the rare-ier
the roar-ier
the cheerier
the carry-er
the far-ier
the surlier
the merrier!
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Deep may mean unreachable.
:- Doug.
What’s whole got to do with holy? What do they have to do with hearing and being heard? Circle here.
:- Doug.
I don’t know what dying is. You don’t know what dying is. The best we can do is to unwind what we think dying has to do with us. We must do this thing.
:- Doug.
I see two soft sheens of light coming across the pond. I would like to have a photograph of it, but can only memorize—and that won’t hold—for how do you photograph something only an unfocusable eye sees?
:- Doug.
The voice of the holy is heard in the congregation.
:- Doug.
The whole of the holy life is conversation.
:- Doug.
Let us move to the more densely packed.
:- Doug.
Don’t be so clear. Make ‘em work for it, with it, with you.
:- Doug.
In crucial moments—stop, look, hear.
:- Doug.
People hunger to go truer than we estimate, fathoms truer.
:- Doug.
Linger with me.
:- Doug.
This land is not your land, made for you: You grew out of it, not the other way around. This is the dust from which you arose. You may even think you paid for it, but look at what happened: it took from you your hours of labor and weeks of hand-wringing.
:- Doug.