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That constant frown!
His face must be in pain!

:- Doug.

Take care your poetry
is not more artful
than true

:- Doug.

The trouble is, we are taking seriously what he says, when it is him we should be taking seriously.

:- Doug.

—potential collapses—
into particle
or wave
each a particular neighborhood (field? environment?)
of the multiverse!

:- Doug.

Can total empty hold relating?
What relates to what?
Is a what necessary?
Can movement relate? Of course.
Can moving move without a res?
Are we whats?
Or no thing else?

:- Doug.

If I am empty, I can contain more. This speaks to calm, to opening possibilities, to relating relatings.

:- Doug.

void holding
all possibility
emptying my
mind for flowing
commencing

:- Doug.

Tell us about your garden. What’s its pull on you?

:- Doug.

What affected you profoundly from 9-11?

:- Doug.

What pulls you out of yourself and simultaneously into your truest self? Where can you lose yourself, lose your sense of time, immerse yourself?

:- Doug.

We are on a journey of ever beginning.

:- Doug.

What do you find brings you peace…or whatever your life most desires?

:- Doug.

Tell us about a family’s tragedy you experienced some years ago.

:- Doug.

Tell us about someone who died.

:- Doug.

Who could use your blessing?

:- Doug.

Who will mourn
When humans die out?

:- Doug.

What if Jesus knew it’d take 80 generations for his message to bear fruit?

:- Doug.

What if we got an inkling our project might really take generations? How to engage the next generation and the next (if there is one)?

:- Doug.

What do you want to teach us about wisdom?

:- Doug.

O joyous day!
Infested with words!
but still…

:- Doug.

What of your garden gives you life?

:- Doug.

You cannot see a floater
nor a star
by looking at it
must let it
find your edges

:- Doug.

To work our humanity’s heart
To knead, to soften, to enlarge
Is a project extending beyond a generation

:- Doug.