Encourage play
Stay aware of your deepest
encourage it to play
:- Doug.
Let’s see what we can do to move the world-process along. It takes all of us doing what we do.
:- Doug.
It’s not about magic—snap your fingers and it appears—but meeting who’s here.
:- Doug.
Inside the classrooms she is held
Her life held back, her dancing soul
I’m going to take that woman
A long, long way from here
Take her to Birmingham
And put her in my store
Her and her mannequins
A long, long way from here
[pianissimo, six tenors a cappella, chillingly:]
Her mannequins
:- Doug.
There are at least these places we can see the really real: spirit, elusive, consensus.
:- Doug.
I am not had by all thoughts at once. Some thinking is sequential.
:- Doug.
What use are grandchildren? What use are you for the grandchildren?
:- Doug.
If you ever had a mystical experience you know words fail to convey the really real, yet for the grandchildren convey you must.
:- Doug.
Ideas, spirit less so, can only be touched by speech, pushed they might push back. Try to pick up a pound of jelly: you stain your hand and leave much behind: you remember the event.
:- Doug.
Lie down in the forest. Get your heart and neurons closer to the roots and life in the ground.
:- Doug.
We need to let every part of us into the room. Things are going to speak to us all at once—because that is life’s way.
:- Doug.