Goals for results limit us–
Goals for results limit us—and if imposed by others they stifle the richness of the people together, constrict the flow.
:- Doug.
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Say not G*d is
Say not
G*d is
for that
makes G*d
an It
rather G*d
causes
moves
acts
affects
generates
grows
emerges
:- Doug.
Christ incarnates in us
Christ incarnates in us
in our doing
more precisely in our loving conversing
—the second coming
:- Doug.
Taking in another
When we hear another
we perceive
take in
to ourselves
and what we ingest
we become
:- Doug.
What do we know of food today/dear little child of mine?
What do we know of food today
dear little child of mine?
It kills
It makes ill
It impoverishes
It hides
It is illegal
Killing when laden
with fats and cholesterol
Ill-making coming from miles away
spewing oil and carbon on our babies
Impoverishing our poor
with unhealthy expensive food
Hiding out in weeds
think tomatoes
Made illegal by our cities
zoning out crops and animals
:- Doug.
Fast food is not going away, so
Fast food is not going away, so we need to develop ways to make it healthy.
:- Doug.
Hearing we are drawn out
Hearing we take another
into us
discovering him or her
mysteriously
the other causes us
to flow outward
into him or her
—someplace in between us
which is also
in each of us
there a chemical interaction
we become not merely one
but a new one
we are borne away
hearing we are drawn out
:- Doug.
Many streams converged in a yellow wood,
Many streams converged in a yellow wood, and I, I chose the one less traveled by, and still we all emerged the one untraveled by, and that has made all.
:- Doug.
Yet our story is told in the telling:
We flow into each other; we are new when we do. We may not always recognize it; we may not be conscious of our changes; and some are so subtle no one would notice or be able to trace it back, but only see its effect ages hence. Yet our story is told in the telling: we meet, we converse, we hear, our unconscious hears what our conscious misses, we tell our lives in stories and our stories become our story. Flow, flow, flow generates life, love, laughter, tears and us. Us anew: the you and the me of yesterday is not the same today because of whom we have met and what the flow has brought us to this instant.
:- Doug.
Each of us is a synthesis–
Each of us is a synthesis—so too all of us together. We are each a synthesis of all the people we have met and heard. What emerges at the estuary is a new river a new sea. They are coming together, merging, and going out from there new, emerging. We are coming together, emerging.
:- Doug.
Where the river meets the sea…making meeting…
Where the river meets the sea
neither river neither sea
making something new, estuary
nor are either the same ever after
sweet & salt, rushing & pondering
making meeting making whole
:- Doug.
The ocean has currents/The ocean is…
The ocean has currents
the ocean has colors
the ocean is alive
and nurtures life
beasts & many life forms
strange & wonderful
the seas & the salt
the brine & the waves
moving moving
us
:- Doug.
There is only ever one question:
There is ever only the one Question
I ask it all day long
of this book I read
in each conversation
of each person I meet
in each joke I tell
of the news I read and hear
in my prayer & in my paying no attention
in my sleeping, dreaming, eating
in the shower and on the phone
surfing the Web and checking email
every minute every hour it comes around
in the eve and in the mourn
How then shall we live?
:- Doug.
