Inviting, Freeing, Engaging
Inviting, Freeing, Engaging
:- Doug.
Hope is in engaging
more than in arriving
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
One still point
The monk in his cell
The nun in hers
The Quaker in Meeting
One still point
Of the turning
:- Doug.
alive green and juicy
We are the ones
to bring lovingkindness
to make the world alive green and juicy
:- Doug.
solving one causes two
It seems these days to solve one problem causes two others. No one has all the answers. This is intimation, would we open our tastebuds, of the mutuality of the whole.
:- Doug.
the all garnering
loud crying ambulance
o, help! I whisper
pray not to nor for
simply notice
the all
garnering
EMTs, wounded, you
:- Doug.
About that party tonight
I find myself wondering about the party tonight. Maybe I will find a nook to sit and invite people to gather and converse and perhaps go deeply. See how that works. Create a quiet contemplative eye for the turning party.
:- Doug.
If we had a play
If we had a play where everybody was the protagonist and everybody the supporting actors, it would be just like life.
:- Doug.
Even to this
We say everyone is connected. The way is via conversation. We cut off our relatedness when we choose not to converse. It’s not warm and cuddly—even most of the time—conversing can leave you feeling attacked or unworthy. Converse anyway. Open yourself even to this.
:- Doug.
To ask one another?
An Indian fall
nameless! faceless!
leagues-away in green backed bunkers
hiring helicopters badges automatic rifles
one says jobs others economic progress
tax revenues
private property
tied together (re-lig-io)
by golden black ooze in pipes
overrunning first peoples
red skinned the reason?
superstitious or deeply spiritual?
can land be sacred?
or only owned?
450 years ago who “owned” this land?
how did this “ownership” begin?
with other guns soldiers canon pigs?
in our century is there room
to ask one another?
:- Doug.
as if meeting matters
As if conversation matters
as if participation matters
as if meeting matters
a way to live
consciousness rearranged
:- Doug.
furthering the circle
Cast about in autumn’s breeze
leaf you are a-shimmering
might we say hanging on
you might know
you’ll fly
and die
furthering the circle of life
:- Doug.
Don’t get trapped
Don’t let yourself get trapped in seeing yourself separate from all around.
:- Doug.
Imagination flares from these
Imagination flares from the sparking of two or more currents (a/k/a persons).
:- Doug.
