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Perhaps we are not on the Earth, but of her, in her.

:- Doug.

Even we, as white 21st century Americans, have been colonized. We cannot easily think in terms of loving, creating, caring, acting with humility with others. We fight diseases, we win lovers, we manage people when we could be gentle with our bodies, allow ourselves to be fully here with another, and meet one another as persons, all as we are. We need to re-assimilate our native creative, language of life. More doings and movings my friends, fewer things and objects out there. Softly live. With. Trickstering.

:- Doug.

I do not write
to convince you
of anything
only to evoke
from you
your stories
your new thinking

:- Doug.

We are just now coming out of the egoic period.

:- Doug.

The world one whole
I do not take in my hand
you do not bring to heel

:- Doug.

Fireflies
in the cooling night
humans

:- Doug.

You are another
human totality
do I not grasp?

:- Doug.

How can anyone ever own land? It was here before, will be here after, you. You can walk across it, put up a dwelling for a spell. It will ever resist being owned. The land cannot be got from mere money or muscle.

:- Doug.

Indigenous describes people like you and me who long ago called this their home.

:- Doug.

In our word ecstasy we can hear echoes from a language no longer spoken: we stand (sta) outside (ex) ourselves. In our conversation, when well entered, we do stand outside ourselves.

:- Doug.

Conversation of an Alice
Running through mirrors
Mirror you mirror me

:- Doug.

Faces and hearts
Seen and heard
Arms embracing
Heads and hands
For others

:- Doug.

Conversing all the way to finding
Our face
Our heart

We will not often find. When we do, what we find will shake us: worthy is our home-place.

:- Doug.

Search deeply: from where does this conversation arise? From whence your responses? No beginning, continual middles. Risings, fallings, darkenings, lightenings. Now simple, now profound, now complex, now stupid: human. And in that somehow sacred. Where does this conversation come from? Remember the bits you can. Give thanks. Inwardly find your reverence. Outwardly. For this other, for this conversation.

:- Doug.

Conversation is a radical thing: taking worth away from profit and placing it instead on living.

:- Doug.

Sacred can be found in conversing. Sacred can be found in living. If we put it in. Put in your bit of sacred.

:- Doug.

The conversation will no longer be the conversation, but something better. Bettering.

:- Doug.

If people are stealing from and killing one another, what right do Western capitalists have to deplore such things? For we have been teaching each other to do these very things: To take the land by force (whoever owned land before the kings and bullies, land the gift of the earth to humans?), to enslave the serfs, to invade the lands of others (think of the North American first peoples), to kill and maim and worse. We dare to hold over it all the name of a god of peace and love! To this day we expand the conquest, with soft sounding things like patents and intellectual property rights: patenting living beings, even humans. Taking our very lives. How is this good?

:- Doug.

Be grateful you are here to converse one more day. And hear.

:- Doug.

What we propose is a respect for conversation. See again the sacred in conversation, as our sacred responsibility to each other.

:- Doug.

I want us to see the world bigger. Bigger see. See with our ears, our fingertips. To take in with the beaks of the robins, the gills of the perch. Taste with our minds. Expand our reach, touch, and feel. Bigger see.

:- Doug.

Healing is work for all. We make whole and we make more whole. You don’t have to be ill or broken to be healed or whole. It just happens we all are.

:- Doug.

In our conversations let us make space to explore our sense memories and our sensing in the moment. There is much value here if we can get beyond the fast thought we barely recognize as not our own.

:- Doug.