lay down the day
Evening: a now for the sun
to lay down the day
:- Doug.
Some people are trying to put on the brakes.
:- Doug.
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Neither stomachs without dreams
Animals live in necessity
gods in possibility
humans on the continuum between
neither stomachs without dreams
nor spirits without stomachs
:- Doug.
Medical people in an emergency
POST is limited to 4 things precisely because medical people in an emergency do not have time to make nuanced calls.
:- Doug.
feed the critter
We mostly sacrifice our spirit to our body—or at least I have. In today’s terms, we build a business or accept a paycheck rather than get on with our calling. Yes there is need to feed the critter, but must we fatten it? Flatten its dreams? Its very deific? Necessaries forever yes, but infinity is also necessary. This is Buber’s “with It man cannot live. But he who lives with It alone is not a man.”
:- Doug.
What made him holy
What made him holy was he took the courage to be god in the world—that is to live out the unbounded spirit via the bounded body, and with abandon.
:- Doug.
Aging away from despair of death
The truth is that as folks age they age away from the despair of death, sometimes to welcome it. The denial of death may be a youth and mid-age thing.
:- Doug.
Death is of the richness
Death is of the richness of nature
We create our world
Death, birth, both
:- Doug.
(beyond souls)
To heal our world
Heal our soul
(beyond souls)
For there is a soul of us
That’s one
:- Doug.
Poetry on the edge
Poetry is on the edge
of what society sees as useful
pin held to balloon
:- Doug.
The human’s plight
The human’s plight: having possibilities that scare us because we might die in the effort. So we ourselves rein in.
:- Doug.
Maybe we are the animus mundi
Maybe we are the animus mundi
seeing deeply
giving voice
attention paying
hearing
:- Doug.
I see you
I see you
I bear witness to you
I hear you
These are at the center
Of necessary communion
:- Doug.
