Do the small
It is necessary for us to do the small thing here now.
:- Doug.
See what we see, take in the unexpected, it is for good.
:- Doug.
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Guiding principles?
Could large business be established with the guiding principles of developing genius in both our employees and our customers, generosity, and gentleness? Where profit was not among the purposes of the enterprise? Could we even imagine such an organization, we could make it. Could we dream of a group of humans being humane to other humans? Could we have a purpose of being life-enhancing? Our current way of doing business, of thinking, says only self-aggrandizement makes sense. If that makes for the ills we see inflicted on us, could we find a better way if we but put our minds and hearts to it.
:- Doug.
Wanting the good
A higher purpose of conversation is the loving-kindness that effective conversation requires. We must want the good of our every conversational partner.
:- Doug.
We should take things for granted
Perhaps we really should take things for granted—all things. Granted as in a blessing, a charm, a grace. So look on whatever happens as neutral, a given, not bad because it was not what we planned. All potentially good. Take it as life, granted to us, to be welcomed and even celebrated.
:- Doug.
The undefended heart
The undefended heart
the first step
doors of perception
a person
wildness
and thought
out there
far away
into the heart of the world
consciously receive light
eyes of a child
:- Doug.
Less than that–and more
It’s not a question of what you are meant to do in this lifetime, rather what you are meant to do in this lifetime next. Next: not a whole lifetime: less than that—and more.
:- Doug.
The merely human
To see differently
To see more
Is destructive
Of the small, the crusty,
The merely human
:- Doug.
Rethink the world
To embrace one’s vision—be it feelings, thoughts, spiritual insights, or all these—is to rethink the world. To ask others—the world—to do so is to raise terrors of an existential order. Can we thus diversify and enrich humanity?
:- Doug.
Not dementia: wisdom
Maybe it’s not dementia, eccentricity, quirks: maybe she or he is working on wisdom: completing, ripening, maturing.
:- Doug.
Build a wall with wallboard
One might build a wall with wallboard—it works, it is good for most settings and most people. It is a modern way of doing things. It is not like were built 100 years ago or 1,000. It meets the needs. It is possible however to build a wall out of brick, or stucco, or ebony, if we want it to look beautiful or create a particular ambiance, or out of bars or pads if we have a certain kind of occupant in mind. Wallboard is like a Will, and ebony, stucco, brick, bars, and pads are like Trusts: more elaborate and expensive.
:- Doug.
There is a mystery in this world
There is a mystery in this world
if we knew what it was it wouldn’t be a mystery
all we get are inklings
:- Doug.
Tasting a somewhere
Tasting a
somewhere
the song
notes of
only shimmering
seven cantos
structure
glow
stems, leaves
and aware
a found poem
:- Doug.
