More than a desirable
Conversation is more than a desirable; it is for life necessary.
:- Doug.
Opening space for necessary conversation
among us is my sacred work
:- Doug.
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gives us back to life
Communion is
what we have
what we are given
and thrust into in life
what we resist
and shrink from
and what gives us
back to life
in times of grief
and 9-11
and barn-raisings
:- Doug.
Grief and pain are necessary
Grief and pain are necessary
caused and received
a necessary communion
is redemption
getting through
moving on
life restored
:- Doug.
A necessary communion
There is a necessary communion
We mostly unconsciously
Only endure it
:- Doug.
arising with the mists
Soul—larger than just me
arising with the mists
over the waters
and the soil
beneath the waters
emerging: all creatures
enfolding: back again to soil
:- Doug.
Inside each others’ minds
Inside each others’ minds
we live
The doctor
is not sure
sends us for a test
only again tomorrow
her attention comes back to us
still not clear
then another test
another waiting room
another waiting time
“We can’t be sure
We should watch”
The President
shows his power
(to speak not of his ego)
consternates the international scene
and ours at home
Our spouse
when unhappy, angry,
perturbed with us
or with anything
troubles our emotions
and concentration
We live within others’ minds
they in ours
Tread gently
Shh
:- Doug.
My parents died romantically
My parents died romantically
Sympathetic heart attacks
Ten minutes close together
:- Doug.
What our times are dreaming
Our dreams direct us
and what our times are dreaming
is money over soul
:- Doug.
another walk on the beach
The new dream
or old, wrong, right:
The one we hold
points us
Unimaginable riches,
long retirement full of play
our culture chooses;
We could have had life
another dance with our love
another walk on the beach
another hug of our grandkids
:- Doug.
as long as it is from your essence
It is useful
to the whole
as long as it is from your essence
:- Doug.
Are we going to be OK?
“Are we going to be OK?” Tom Brokaw says that was the common questions interviewers asked him about his 50 year career reporting the world’s news. Isn’t that what we all want to know? Isn’t that a service you as elder can provide younger generations, to answer that question for them? Are we going to be OK?
: – Doug.
Throw another stone!
Concentric circles have the world
Silence, openness, pregnant void, deep sleep
Yielding to dream then to waking really sleeping
Splashing waves grow smaller so we slumber on
Throw another stone!
:- Doug.
enact the work of destiny
Being already imminently divine
We enact the work of destiny
The seeds being beyond the named and measured
:- Doug.
all possible lives, choosing
So what life are we living? Seems to me we are living all possible lives, and have chosen as we have gone.
:- Doug.
Joseph Campbell, cosmogonic round, and dementia
Joseph Campbell writes of the cosmogonic round of coming from the deepest through the dream to waking and then returning in reverse order.
Wonder if this says something of dementia, where people forget in reverse order? They are maybe just more visibly in the cosmogonic round than we (who are not so blessed) are. They might know they are doing the work, or they might not. Interesting. It is at least a parallel and maybe a reminder to us.
:- Doug.
