Look. Discern.
Look. Discern. The power of fatigue, the structure of numbness, are about to shatter. Sacredness—ever surrounding us, upholding us—will come again to our notice, lovingkindness will be practiced again, from the heart of us.
:- Doug.
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Before the elder speaks
Before the elder speaks, we know no possible newness, no future we’d want.
:- Doug.
Those empty bags
Dollars and numbers are just the current version of chasing after wealth and fame, those empty bags.
:- Doug.
Coming together and
Reality is not primarily Dollars and numbers, although they are a part of reality. The primary portion is hidden by the drum beats and billboards and media images of those who want to collect Dollars and numbers. Real life is coming together and expanding, is loving and creating. Real life creates more love.
:- Doug.
Push out the boundaries
Push out the boundaries of our concepts of God, to see God as that thread, and all heart, and community, and more. God as more principle, more verb than object. For objects are controllable. God is lovable. Unpredictable.
:- Doug.
We kings
Sing the song
of spirit & play
spirit & play
it’s the one we kings
cannot answer
spirit & play
sing sing sing!
:- Doug.
Called by many names
There is something larger at stake, and it is called by many names. Let us use life. Life wants to emerge. Life wants community. Life wants to draw the circle larger.
:- Doug.
You, grandchildren
You, grandchildren
are sovereign
you get to choose
eating yourselves to death
or living life the vulnerable
:- Doug.
We are chained
The controlling culture, make no mistake, is not the act of those in control, it is our own creation, sustained by each of us every day. That makes it more powerful because so many add to it. Our protest would be to seven billion of us. Our grief is shared with as many. We are chained to each other. Amazing we can break these chains.
:- Doug.
Amazing announcement
The announcement is amazing precisely because of its audacity in the face of the controlling culture.
:- Doug.
Announcing a new beginning
Elders announce a new beginning
announce the new to victims
of the old ways
:- Doug.
Criticize by shedding
The elder criticizes the control culture by shedding his or her control, finally being left with only his or her humanity.
:- Doug.
Grief for money
Grief is and must also be for the death of the old order. Grief for money and numbers, control and order, the hegemony of culture over its members.
:- Doug.
world v that
It is not this world v. that
—there is only one world—
it is this interpretation of the one world v. that
control v. love
greed v. community
:- Doug.
