bundling?
Are there mysteries
or constellating hints
loose bundles bundling?
:- Doug.
We are the stars
through which appear
hints of several constellations
:- Doug.
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Co-arising
Co-arising
co emerging
co implicating explicating
co constellating
interdependent
interbeing
are we
:- Doug.
Agnostic about something
We’re all agnostic
about something
particularly things about God
Does God
ever have details?
:- Doug.
Actually, we don’t live in our heads
We tell ourselves we live in our heads
when it’s mainly our stomachs
or wallets
:- Doug.
Mistake to call us “older adults”
Don’t make the mistake of calling us “older adults” for we are more than adults grown older: we are in a different development of life—psychologically, and for some of us, spiritually.
:- Doug.
When you see something this week
When you see something this week, ask yourself What is this like? Where have I seen something similar? Of what story does it remind me?
:- Doug.
Organizing he said is the answer
Organizing he said is the answer
doing away with interest she said
the idiots deserve their turn I offered
but we’re all looking
too shallow
when we could be looking
at the heart
:- Doug.
and yet
You are different from turtle
turtle different from fish
from bird from cactus
from sun and moon and
all stars
and yet
there is a pattern
:- Doug.
to eat corn off the cob
One may eat corn off the cob row-wise or all around, and it will taste sweet either way. Four-footed brothers: namaste.
:- Doug.
well then that’s a good
If I write a thought that’s old to me
in a way that helps you see afresh
well then that’s a good
:- Doug.
Die to live
It’s looking like we
must die to live
but we’d better
die well before we die
so we live alive
:- Doug.
A bigger answer
The world has changed. No longer can we say get busy and grow your own garden, get help from your neighbors: people in the city do not have land for a garden, nor neighbors they know. There needs to be a bigger answer than just sending each to her or his own devices which are too small to make any difference. “Get a job” you can say, but if there are no jobs? “Start a business,” but if imagination has died? “Go, be warmed and filled,” and you do not give them the things needed? Consider James 2:16 if you are of that heart.
:- Doug.
Health care is a safety issue for the whole of the country
If you do not have health care, and do nothing when you get sick, you spread your germs and my community is at risk. Health care is a community health issue, a safety issue for the whole of the country.
:- Doug.
