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If you can get to
hearing the beats of your heart
nothing else
for fully sixty ticks
what will you hear
when you come back
into the other real?

:- Doug.

I turn now to the burrs that this lifetime have been sticking to my suit.

:- Doug.

Time is a wall constructed to keep the generations from jostling.

:- Doug.

flowers turn toward
us when we
turn toward them

:- Doug.

If we accept, what gifts come from turning toward those not yet?

:- Doug.

If it’s possible to extend the mind then maybe it’s possible to extend the conversation to among the generations.

:- Doug.

We are working on specific skills for grasping the gossamer.

:- Doug.

Now to focus beyond one family on a whole people. Now to focus on a generation, eleven away. Now to focus on generating generations human.

:- Doug.

I did not know what this course would be when first it thunk me. I will not know it except in the encounter. I will not know my people, these generations, except in the over against.

:- Doug.

This course, my life, teaches me by interocepting, strolling, gesturing, negative spacing, nature. . .

These then teach us about human. They open a walk with the generations.

:- Doug.

I don’t have to think of Monday, or in this holiday weekend Tuesday, as back to work. Every day is work, every day is open. How my thinking is changing!

:- Doug.

Overnight in the wilds
now sprout our wings and fins!

:- Doug.

In nature, time itself sprouts leaves & flowers & briars, oh my!

:- Doug.

Ahh, to design my days! That is the first task.

:- Doug.

With a creation like Jackson Pollock’s Number 14, do you shout, whisper, or question “Done”?

:- Doug.

This idea of gesture and seeing gesture more broadly is opening up more of the path through the brambles. Here there be berries!

:- Doug.

Look for the negative spaces in nature. The gaps between the leaves, the pauses between bird songs, the deep frog calls fading.

:- Doug.

We’re going to look for ways to engage humanity—and along the way we may find that the way is the humanity. An echo almost caught: the way is the life.

:- Doug.

The reason I closed the door on my practice was to turn to the wild bramble that is this life.

:- Doug.

If you cannot gesture your sentence, rescribble!

:- Doug.

This course walks by experiments. It will not stay within the banks of any lesson plan. Indeed lessons pop in our face. Lessons astound!

:- Doug.

We offer a soft gaze for those we meet: curiously, openly.

:- Doug.

Bring us into nature.

:- Doug.