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Balance seems too much work.

:- Doug.

How do humans deal with loss? We go on to something else.

:- Doug.

Can you find a way to face with equanimity the losses of advancing age: companions, physical function, mental function?

:- Doug.

How do I get a meaningful conversation started with you?

:- Doug.

Every day unfamiliar new wrinkles!
You have to do something new
If your life is to count more

:- Doug.

Did you hear what you said? is a good deepener, even if you did not hear what they said.

:- Doug.

Hear. That’s enough.

:- Doug.

Do you think you are world-class?
Actually you should
Actually you are

:- Doug.

Enter the dangerous conversation
All conversation is dangerous
To information, knowledge, status, and power

:- Doug.

Holy is adjective. Holy is as holy does to.

:- Doug.

Sharing food, stories, and art is a way to express the ineffable. It is the ancient way; it is the primal way; it is the timelessly fresh way.

:- Doug.

The weaving, the modifying us and others and our environment: these are life more than the bodies moved by these actions.

:- Doug.

All we are is adjectives.

:- Doug.

Living systems are conversant systems.

:- Doug.

To live is to converse.

:- Doug.

Conversing is cognizing is living is adjectivizing.

:- Doug.

Webs emerge from spider
already tracks of history
now is
your weaving
and
my weaving
always and

:- Doug.

See that web
you’re looking the wrong direction
to focus on threads
betweens are blessedly inessential
webbing acting ephemerally (TGB)

:- Doug.

Is no “is”
only bringing forth

:- Doug.

How confining it must be
To be trapped inside a box
Called “God”

:- Doug.

There are world-class exemplars
Inside every building
We miss seeing them
They are so common
And shy

:- Doug.

Sharing of food
Gathered us by the fire
To tell stories
And create art
Here the ineffable words
to speak forth mystery
Food story art

:- Doug.

If you had 5 minutes left in your life—and you couldn’t leave work—what would you do?

:- Doug.