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As children do we learn to love? Or is it something already there?

:- Doug.

“As way opens:” attend: is this my opening?

:- Doug.

Maybe the source just might be this little speck of working, smaller than you could see, exploding growing outward, now everywhere in a universe of galaxies without number, growing, growing, all the power that exists, all the doing, all the being, ever, ever, all source in a drop of water in some high country unknown becoming mighty rivers rushing to mighty seas, in this unfathomable sea of stars. Maybe. Maybe nothing like this.

:- Doug.

First step, put in much
Last step, take out, leave art and heart

:- Doug.

What do people do unconsciously?
Follow the feet, follow the hands
follow the twitches at the mouth

:- Doug.

At last, do your work of significance.

:- Doug.

Today I do not want to read
instead to mine from my soul

:- Doug.

Do I retire? is a small question
next to
To what do I retire?

:- Doug.

Is there a life in poetry, in conversing, in loving?
To ask is to know, to live, to epitomize
The question is a long line seeking seeking

:- Doug.

There will be a tension between those days we want to live wholly, holy, fully, enjoyingly, ly, Lee

and those days we want to keep score, get something done, earn money, get something, arrive, Clive

and maybe it signifies we need both kinds of days or only that both kinds have a place in every life or that we do best to accept the days that come upon us, so…. flow, Flo

:- Doug.

We have nothing to fear but the fear-monger.

:- Doug.

What is the biggest question you could ask?

:- Doug.

It is fitting to call him Mr. Tromp, because he tromps on people, particularly those who are not him. Don’t tromp on us.

:- Doug.

It helps to have some quiet time. To be receptive.

:- Doug.

Now that we have spent 4 years living inside Donald Trump’s head, do we like it?

:- Doug.

I do not understand: What about covid time is not real life?

:- Doug.

What do I want to teach, to have us do? I want us to think. Deeply. Widely.

It helps me to think lyrically. To capture thoughts in fewer words, in metaphors, in images, in sound.

:- Doug.

Why poetry? Because it will
if practiced with love and resolve
Deepen your understanding of your friends
Deepen your understanding of your work
Deepen your understanding of yourself

:- Doug.

There is a bread.

:- Doug.

What called you to this course?

:- Doug.

Finally, sing in my own native tongue.

:- Doug.

Take a course of thinking and observing.

:- Doug.

How does your story speak to covid time? How does covid time inform your story?

:- Doug.