Getting over yourself
Self transcendence is getting over yourself.
:- Doug.
Tradition has a way of drawing out our view longer and longer.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Matters too significant
Stories address matters too significant for books, Internet, and university.
:- Doug.
Why do we want long life?
Why do we want long life past our child-rearing age? Why would you?
:- Doug.
Can we cure grief?
We are not about curing grief. Can we cure grief? We are not about getting beyond grief. We are about growing, even when we do not want to grow, about living even when we do not want to live.
:- Doug.
The work of the living-dying
End of life work is not just something we do to the dying, but what work are the living-dying doing? What message do they convey? What message do we draw out? It is with: working with.
:- Doug.
What flavor of growing?
After our grandchildren grow up, what flavor of growing are we doing?
:- Doug.
Build a story
Name:
–a fantastic situation
–a human dilemma
–a reason to leave home
–a room
–an antagonist
–a fear
–a foolishness
–a color of hair
–an aspiration
–a form of wisdom
Then build a story
:- Doug.
Help the atmosphere speak
See the atmosphere, help it speak. Even the little wisps of atmosphere barely noticed.
:- Doug.
Preservation and opening
We can be about preservation
and
opening way for the entirely unexpected
:- Doug.
Ancestor, let us gather
Ancestor, let us gather
generations of grandchildren
to see what happens!
:- Doug.
Can you lay claim?
To your own mind
can you lay claim
or is it part of a larger?
thoughts get passed around
sometimes thinking occurs
someday fission to fusion?
you and me to surprise?
:- Doug.
Somehow one
Somehow we are all one. Somehow we kick and scratch one another. It is ok. Fear not. Open.
:- Doug.
