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This conversation among and between people hides its true nature—between conversations—Conversations converse with one another and we but to make audible to be danced to be conversing

:- Doug.

I used to see a path stretching forth
Now I see it has for me an end
I am unperturbed
…
Except I must get busy…
I am busy
Living

:- Doug.

I want to go deeper and higher at the moment and for sure next week. I am worried that I will run out of things to read, to prime. So this morning I read some B+ material. I should not worry, but continue to explore, to walk into the unknown. There is much in this world.

:- Doug.

I have no idea what my last insight means; it is simply fun to stumble over.

:- Doug.

Don’t have all your chickens in one egg.

:- Doug.

What are the gifts of old age?

:- Doug.

Ineffective voices
raised are
better than
none for
we cannot
know what
is ineffective

:- Doug.

Let’s be curious about who and what shows up.

:- Doug.

See ourselves larger.

:- Doug.

Plural is real, singular unreal
others—other
possibilities—possibility

:- Doug.

There is a 24 hour clock, but of course
we never reach the 24th hour
we never reach the 24th hour

:- Doug.

In the midst we stand
of a slow motion carnage
because it moves imperceptibly
we do not see
unless we look
we do nothing
as with greed we destroy
money is our god
it is god’s will
we burn our air
destroy our rain forests
enslave our babies to perversion
break our strong youth in war

:- Doug.

Be the mystery
Saying, I flow
Waters, I am

:- Doug.

See your breathing
expanding the space
around you dancing

:- Doug.

Open space
not for possibility
for possibilities
not for number alone
for things smacking
you in the face
unpredictably

:- Doug.

Especially when I am assailed by many and varied thoughts, the more I am able to let them out of my grasp, the more the water of my meditation runs clear.

:- Doug.

Water in the sky
Darkens our day
Preparing to rain
Grass in our mouths
Oil too in transported meats
Greenland melts in our exhaust
Look: our world is quite strange

:- Doug.

Our nature is both persistent body and change: the greater of these is change. Eventually our bodies decompose; our changes are ever changing. It is to be sure harder to embrace change. To be sure is never granted in our world. We want to rest, to arrive, to grasp stability. We can have that (for a time) if we do not become attached to it.

:- Doug.

We are convinced by pain. Especially another’s.

:- Doug.

Into pain’s depths
our tears the priming
for the cool clear hope

:- Doug.

Bring light.

:- Doug.

Aging = growing

:- Doug.

Aging is no disease
We older
Can grow

:- Doug.