The course of work
The main thing is the main thing: the course. The work For the Grandchildren.
:- Doug.
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Must perish from this earth
Government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations must perish from this earth. The best government is neither the least nor the biggest, but the one most people-centered.
:- Doug.
Learned of upstream
We can explore what our messages might be by asking those downstream what they learned of us, by asking ourselves what we learned of those upstream.
:- Doug.
Major lawyering
Major poetry is a felt change in consciousness
Major lawyering is a felt change in consciousness
:- Doug.
Value of our ending?
What is the possible value of our ending?
To our culture?
To those who must not yet end?
:- Doug.
Dying say yes
Let me in my dying say yes to how living and dying is, without arguing with it, without agreeing with it. Meet, converse, wrestle: turn.
:- Doug.
Do not fight my death
I do not want to fight my death
nor give in to it
to wrestle with it, turn, be turned
:- Doug.
Wrestle things that are
Our task is to make our meaning so that the grandchildren will see a way to make theirs. It is made when you wrestle the things that are.
:- Doug.
Allow Meet Welcome
Allow
what life might come to you
of the life now meeting yours
Meet
what clues of this life are opened for you
Welcome
the dying this opening invites you to
:- Doug.
Cannot know what they are teaching
Elders cannot know what they are teaching. If they know, they are not elders.
:- Doug.
Never a poet harm
Never a poet harm
Never a poet love
Never a poet be
Never
Aiee! It’s too late!
:- Doug.
wrinkles and wonder
The call of the elder may just be to live life as it comes to us, thinking in our every day of the later and earlier ones and our responsibility to them, knowing our own failures and successes are all part of the wrinkles of life, of what gives the wonder to it.
:- Doug.
