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When you find an image find also the contraries and sub-texts enfolded. Milk is white; it is also sweet. Again it hides by way of its opacity; clogs with its fat. Nourishes; stains. Seek the complete, the other in the familiar, the against. Go further to the dilemma, the vile.

:- Doug.

To invert subject and universe would have one say “I” for universe, and “universe” for me. A pillowcase, turn your mind—the cosmos—inside out.

:- Doug.

By hand, draw triangles. Learn kinetically.

:- Doug.

Just as Quaker worship is about silently attending for the messages of divinity, so we can attend to the generations.

:- Doug.

Circular
the universe
of roots of trees
their branches
of cumulus clouds
of flocks of clouds
and birds
of shapes of planets
and their orbits
the reach of my thinking
and probably yours
the gathering of our peoples
and our conversations
even when
I think
I do not hear
the returning arc

:- Doug.

We used to argue about money
Now we argue about safety in covid time
Always about something lacking, we thought

:- Doug.

What do you want your metaphor to mean? What does it want to mean?

:- Doug.

people only
Hear
what they are
prepared to
Taste

:- Doug.

Stories and poems live
in metaphor
as metaphor

:- Doug.

When you use a metaphor in your story or poem, ask, What kind of X is that? Go two or three steps: your metaphor can grow more true to what you meant, more concrete.

:- Doug.

We dream in metaphor
No, our metaphors
Are our dreams

:- Doug.

You are laying a snare
to take the mind

:- Doug.

All human activity is to express
When heard the circle completes
Being heard makes a person

:- Doug.

Some fog out there today—that is good for the imaginary.

:- Doug.

The imaginary world is larger than the real. That’s what gives it a pull across centuries.

:- Doug.

What he classes as funny is not, and is not intended as, funny.

:- Doug.

My first fruitings
of the day
give to divinity underarching

:- Doug.

Tell your story
their questions their eyes
tell you

:- Doug.

We make the world
in order to inter-stand it
We invent worlds
in order to find

:- Doug.

This course encourages
you to think to dream
in wholes, completes

:- Doug.

Immerse the grandchild
in any environs
her essence will soak up the music

:- Doug.

Sometimes to write something is to make it less significant.

:- Doug.

We are placing ourselves into a larger flow. Our plash has an effect.

:- Doug.