Blossomy
Elders are blossomy.
:- Doug.
In dementia, there is not just a real person in there. They might just have something to teach us.
:- Doug.
Open your hearts we say
far more essential than heart
is our inside aliveness
:- Doug.
With our constant competing
not winners and losers are we making
but losers and losers out of ourselves
:- Doug.
The important thing in meeting an elder like any other person is that you recognize this person.
:- Doug.
Trigger texts are events which evoke within me touches of freeing and opening.
:- Doug.
Sorry Helen: Life is mostly lived as nothing, seldom as adventure, almost never as daring. But if we saw the whole picture sooner….
:- Doug.
New words have at times come to me
New words I call to us
New words for new being
:-Doug.
I do want to work more toward the kind and opened side of the world. I need to invent what that means, how to get there. It means first to see, feel, hear, taste, smell, be touched. Take inside and be received.
:- Doug.
Dream on the page that you are part of a long genetic chain or necklace. How far into future does it go? Who does it touch? Can you feel the pull of folks in prior generations? How far back can you imagine?
:- Doug.