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We’re still at the place in this pandemic where we tell numbers as if they were the story—numbers of confirmed cases, numbers dead, numbers tested. Or, we tell vignettes of people experiencing it. Is there yet another story?

:- Doug.

If I take all the time I wanted, what could I do? No, into what mixing would I throw myself?

:- Doug.

Cast myself into the roiling stream.

:- Doug.

The craft of storytelling
The strength of storytelling

:- Doug.

We have trained ourselves all our lives in shortness of sight. Now we must re-focus on the long and the far. We are able. It will be hard work.

:- Doug.

Can you see?
Can you see them?
You can
If you look far enough
Over the horizon

:- Doug.

Why do we have so few elders among so many old people? 1. We don’t know what elders look like. 2. We have no schools of elders. 3. We fight age and its developments. 4. Why else? The reason for the question: to stretch out our eyes.

:- Doug.

What have we not learned?

:- Doug.

Like me in mine, you in all your years have probably not learned a thing. In this age, now, it is time learn. Something of value of the 300-year grandchild elders. Some things that may traverse centuries.

:- Doug.

Give us to seek awareness of your presence in our….

:- Doug.

Sometimes we are charged to remember something we never knew.

:- Doug.

Until you feel the press of responsibility, you will not be tellers of important story, the great Rememberers.

:- Doug.

What’s here, over the hill? Another hill—between us and the 11th generation.

:- Doug.

In our course we work at learning something, throwing out that of which we were certain, taking in contraries without throwing up.

:- Doug.

Well, Friend, who are you?

Who am I to you?

No, who are you at all? To you perhaps?

:- Doug.

In this course, we will try on as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

:- Doug.

I’m going to do what I can to keep this part of the world turning. More I cannot, less I ought not.

:- Doug.

That’s what poets do
take us to deeps
take us to longer

:- Doug.

OK Boomers
Let’s attend
Where we find ourselves

:- Doug.

Take note
of the slings and arrows
of daily fortune

:- Doug.

I have not died
But I can
Learn it now

:- Doug.

A village of voices
walks with me
my path was only
straight before
my first steps
bruises and defeats
become callouses and badges
peel away layers
of humanity
plant them in
insignificance

:- Doug.

Works of dying:
Missing
Wrestling
Angel
Not being
Remembering, putting together, meaning, making sense
Lessons and messages
What is human
Becoming ancestor
Testifying, truth telling
Stepping down
Being gathered
Whole, completions
Resituating

:- Doug.