Get the important thing
The important thing is to get the important thing out of you and infecting others.
:- Doug.
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to a new place
As a reader I want you, writer, to take me or your character, ideally both of us, to a new place, to a felt change of consciousness, a new life.
:- Doug.
fingers across the generations
The field of the between is visceral level. Over centuries the actual words matter less than the senses evoked, senses of muscle, bone, grasp, weight, mass, moving. It is here we have a chance to touch fingers across the generations, fingers divine to divine. Wisp brushing wisp.
:- Doug.
Our stories actually mourn?
How might we have our stories, our poems, actually mourn? Or dance? Maybe ask Meredith Willson or Edgar Allan Poe. An actually mourning poem would without words keen in the throat that hears. Keening exceeds the one, enters the realm of the between. The between is the place of traverse, of converse.
:- Doug.
Your mind might not be you
In meditation, you are studying your mind, with hints that your mind might not be you.
:- Doug.
Time cycle of mystery?
What is the time cycle
that includes the ancestor
and us with the descendant generations?
How far longer is a moment of mystery
beyond a question?
:- Doug.
Think through body
We think through our bodies as well as through our nervous system and brain.
:- Doug.
Dwelling in ancestors
I dwell in the ancestors
Ancestors dwell in me
Generations in me
I in them
We converse
:- Doug.
Overload the senses
Overload the senses, not by pouring upon them but by calling forth from them, not to take them out but to find what they may contain and produce, and then over again.
:- Doug.
Precedential times
Many say we are in unprecedented times. Rather, these are precedential times.
:- Doug.
