We don’t need a new science nor a new technology, religion, metaphor, myth, and on: these are too small, too un-interwoven. We need a new people. A new people will create all these things and interweave their interweavings. A new people will create beauty and color and flavor and aroma. A new people will make a new juicy and flexible world: a new loving.
:- Doug.
How can the poet ever know the meaning, the understanding the poem carries? I think it resides in all the readers, too, and especially in all the betweens. I often do not know its meaning a week later!
:- Doug.
Perhaps we are stretching, exploring, reaching simply to meet, to meet the new, to invent the new. It cannot be said. No words.
:- Doug.
The meaning and purpose of life is to meet. In a way the job description is “to be interrupted.”
:- Doug.
We are given to always fall short; for the same reason yet the striving is our fulfilling. Dissatisfaction then is our fulfilling. We can relax knowing that our embrace ever grows. We can relax that stretching cannot end, we play our part, our life vitalizes, life vitalizes.
:- Doug.
There is no end to meeting, and meeting is the only doing, the only being. Even when we ponder the meeting in memory, we are meeting, or at least can be, if we have heart. There is no way to say this. Only do. Only be. Never completed. Always completing. Never whole. Always wholing. This the joy. This the reach. This the grasp eluded.
:- Doug.
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