trying to say
It’s not that I was trying to say something, but I was searching for something that needed to be said.
:- Doug.
Archive for August 4th, 2026
don’t have to prove anything
I don’t have to prove anything
Just say it
Others will probe it with me
:- Doug.
in relation made
Life is about survival and propagation. But that prevails only for brief periods. Step thro’ those quickly. Leave the hard shells (thunka-thunka) behind to enter the vulnerable memory-making, relation-making, story-making, conversation-making, person-making state. Persons are in relation made. So persons contain multitudes; in this very way, persons are rich. I hear the old ones saying, Give up speed, savor complexity.
:- Doug.
Those images still singing
Memory, and some kin of it larger, resides in the place, and the trees, rocks, and generations of skittering little animals of the place. When they are chopped down, dug out, killed or their habitat destroyed to make a cornfield for your invading culture; when the face of the sacred mountain is carved into the faces of your country’s heroes; indigenous lifeways are severed from whole peoples. But the peoples, their old ones, still carry vivid images, those images still singing.
:- Doug.
