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Meeting is a maybe thing
has to be
or we would not recognize it

:- Doug.

When dark meets deep
Truly meets and juices
Flow, then maybe

:- Doug.

In our deeps, dark
Something is there, moving
If we allow, enters
One like us, mystery
Into our meeting, uninvited
comes one, carrying
us out to waters, unfathomable

:- Doug.

The deep point in us is dark, a drilling into as much as awaiting discovery.

:- Doug.

Every subject is exciting to somebody. Can you imagine how someone could love this one as much as you love your favorite?

:- Doug.

The sky moves, but is it alive? The clouds we are learning are full of living organisms, but is the sky alive? We probably do not yet know enough to answer these questions. Cloud reacts to wind, but does not make choices, initiate, as far as we now know. We know we are alive when we do not just react, but interact. Are you alive? How would we know?

:- Doug.

Insert sniffing for what’s more life-finding.

:- Doug.

My life has been a search for words; how fitting I should now be given more for which to search!

:- Doug.

Converse and entangle. Here is life enlivened.

:- Doug.

I am entangled in the one who hates what I love, who works against my work. Life unfolds like that: I am called to help entangling.

:- Doug.

The more bird seed I put out the more they eat the more bird seed I need put out. Life unfolds like that: entangled.

:- Doug.

We don’t need to predict ourselves.

:- Doug.

“And I never thought of doing that.”
Profound.

:- Doug.

There’s so much to taste
we cannot take it all in
in one melody

:- Doug.

When we bump
we generate
changes in
those around us
and ourselves

:- Doug.

Evolution is a word for learning.

:- Doug.

The fact that ethical behavior is at times difficult and even feels unnatural does not deprive ethics of its sacred character. Love is more basic than how we find our way to it.

:- Doug.

Fixing a car, making a quilt: You have an idea and say it. Your friend adds something to it. So does another. We try it out and tinker with it. In our daily life evolution.

:- Doug.

If we first notice our effect we can next put our efforts to use for good.

:- Doug.

In a matter of moments we can find and insert something profound into an interchange; this can infect the organism that is our day, group, and culture. A wink across a room can make all the difference.

:- Doug.

Symbiogenesis—for instance one organism living within another (think bacteria in your gut)—might be a model for how one person could change a large company and a whole culture. What is infection today becomes how we do things becomes essence. Since we’re talking of social interchange, the word might better be symbiomemesis.

:- Doug.

You are an open system, far from equilibrium. I’m an OSFFE. Together we are a third OSFFE.

:- Doug.

This pondering just now is a moment profound. Don’t compare. Just be here.

:- Doug.