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What new conversation is needed now? Urgently?

:- Doug.

The silence =
The embracing =
Loving

:- Doug.

What forces will shape the world of our grandchildren?

:- Doug.

If in fact we are developing, can we choose, and how ought we choose, to develop? For whom? For God, for community, for grandchildren? Harder still, what must die?

:- Doug.

Myth is a story which never happened, is always happening, and has always and everywhere happened.

:- Doug.

Jesus was at least an example for us.

:- Doug.

To take up our cross we often see as a burden to carry to our own execution. Maybe we can see it as an invitation to die to our old ways, our ego perhaps and go through that seeming wall to our new life.

:- Doug.

Some silences bring mystery
a blanket this
to wrap ourselves within

:- Doug.

Now may we carry this awareness of the silence into our day.

:- Doug.

Profundities abound
Silence, mistakes
Who can say?

:- Doug.

Let us look at the same thing so we may together converse.

:- Doug.

Some parts of you will never be able to keep up with the silence.

:- Doug.

Our reflections can address What is it we are about, now? They can also show us a threshold: a dying appropriate if we are to become elders.

:- Doug.

A conversation needs a ground for being. For that it needs at least these two: It needs an energy. It needs a subject for that energy. Shared. An open door and a desire to step through. One of us must give some color and fragrance to what’s on the other side of the door so the other will want to step.

:- Doug.

Stop talking so much! Converse!

:- Doug.

We need both slow and fast, gentle and strong, for a good massage. So too for our thinking.

:- Doug.

The fast boat covers a lot of surface but misses the worlds below.

:- Doug.

The media are scrupulous to search out those for and against. At times this feels like endorsing each as of equal validity. Some incisiveness is also needed, would you agree? Ought we give equal time to the lie as to the truth? To hate as to love?

:- Doug.

Dying is perhaps a time to ease, to clear, to calm, to gentle.

:- Doug.

There is always to be found more depth; ever apt to be rewarded is our reflecting.

:- Doug.

More times than we would guess are ripe times for reflection.

:- Doug.

This thing you call God is too small. Anything you could would be. It is “another god before me,” a “graven image.”

:- Doug.

I don’t much say “God” because that affixes a handle—leads us to think we know—and therefore are bigger than this.

:- Doug.