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Surprise is another way to say felt change in consciousness.

:- Doug.

Efficiency is another word for lazy.

:- Doug.

The person taking notes holds the power
This is ancient, this is natural
The priests ruled by their scriptures
The people want for efficiency to remember
How they solved this knot generations ago
The person making notes says they are true
Just how do we know?

:- Doug.

Better than my time
I give you my attention

:- Doug.

Are they eternal verities
Or our pet truthlings?

:- Doug.

Poet’s task: surprise
showing us our images
in a larger soup

:- Doug.

With the alien
juxtapose our ideas
poet must surprise

:- Doug.

The poet’s task
is to surprise

:- Doug.

This is a dangerous work
Losing our accustomed way the first step
Return doubtful

:- Doug.

This is dying work
This is work dying

:- Doug.

bare branches trusting
winter winds speak to me of
my life in spirit

:- Doug.

A difficult dying can be brought on by physical symptoms or attempts to control symptoms. (Maybe they are spiritual work going on that we should not seek to control in the first place.) But also by psychological or spiritual suffering. Attend.

:- Doug.

Life is the bubbling
spring, back there, somewhere, seldom
you hear anymore

:- Doug.

Don’t stop halfway down the well.

:- Doug.

We are the ones to develop and discover eldering for our age.

:- Doug.

What is reality? There is always more to open.

:- Doug.

I cannot know what eldering looks like in your life. Only you can know. Much of what you know of it is semi-conscious. So we set out to discover. There is no end to discovery.

:- Doug.

Eldering is a class of self invention.

:- Doug.

Caring for others is the spring of depth.

:- Doug.

Care is sold
Caring wells up

:- Doug.

All our depth may be sideways into divinity.

:- Doug.

Exercise: This is the meaning I gave my life. This is the meaning I now give my life.

:- Doug.

Nobody can give meaning to your life but you.

:- Doug.