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This idea from Bohm (it is in my dictionary too) that thoughts are the product of thinking has me this morning. These are accustomed by-ways that move much faster than thinking. Thinking is work. Thoughts get in the way, try to pull us away from thinking. Thoughts are much easier to navigate than thinking.

Thoughts and ideas are in the air, they travel from one to another, take us over. This is part of the meaning of culture and the source of its power.

Can we free ourselves to think? Can we see where we are caught in some sticky substance, like gum on our shoe, but stronger and on both shoes? Can we suspend thought long enough to think?

Quickly and deeply the groove is cut. Even this one.

:- Doug.

Thoughts are tracks
of past thinking
soon a rutted road

:- Doug.

Thoughts get in the way of thinking.

:- Doug.

Vulnerability is my super power.

:- Doug.

What have you noticed about growing older? Your body, attitudes, likes, speed, needs, viewpoint, spirituality?

:- Doug.

Let us say the thing, sing the song, and soon the thought lives us out.

:- Doug.

What are you going to chew on?

:- Doug.

Can the grandchildren
benefit all their lives from
the shared thing unknown?

:- Doug.

What is it you don’t
know from which the grandchildren
might just benefit?

:- Doug.

The psychologist speaks of generativity
The poet of grandchildren

:- Doug.

Forgive us our estimates.

:- Doug.

An advantage grandparents have over parents: distance, perspective, long-view. We do not need to deal with the immediacies of injuries, illness, discipline, and paying the bills: we can be mentors, friends, confidants.

:- Doug.

Use your body as an antenna to receive what other bodies are feeling or sending. Mirroring posture and gestures is one way. Noticing discrepancies between words and gestures.

:- Doug.

Fill out the narrative—add some closer estimates to our guesses.

:- Doug.

Adventure in the
larger inclusion
—all is guess, inexact, imprecise
—all is open
So adventure!

:- Doug.

All conversation, all community, all communication is partial, entangled with guesses. Herein lies its limitlessness.

:- Doug.

Seek your awareness.

:- Doug.

Actualization flows down hill
Love seeks its own level

:- Doug.

If you feed the boiling pot, he will erupt.

:- Doug.

To aim is to guess.

:- Doug.

Friend, flow.

:- Doug.

We experience quantum leaps all the time: in thought, going from one orbit to another without traversing any space between.

:- Doug.

Flow water flow
flow

:- Doug.