Today: easy
Today: easy to think nothing
to be
here
:- Doug.
These are my explorations into spirit.
:- Doug.
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A very light nearly
A very light nearly
imperceptible shimmering
of the pond’s surface:
a breath moves it
silences me
:- Doug.
fun for the sake of fun
I resist fun for the sake of fun, yet see its value in spirit. It is less necessary that I understand or assimilate than that I step out in fun and trust. The body has its own knowing, its own courage. Step!
:- Doug.
Play as a good path
Play, perhaps Bernie DeKoven’s DeepFun.com, seems to be a good path. Choose one. All paths lead to spirit. Choose the one that facilitates best for today.
:- Doug.
If forever pregnant
Answers come from questions
The best answers are questions
If we’d be forever pregnant!
:- Doug.
Crazy talk the game
Crazy talk the game: someone say something; next one stretches it out of shape; feel, hear, see where it carries you. Only after it has finished and flown from memory can you know it. Incomprehensible fun!
:- Doug.
Everyone wants and is a little afraid of
Be Friendly—everyone wants depth, everyone is a little afraid of it. Invite. Give permission. Welcome.
:- Doug.
What’s it about?
What’s it about? What do I sometimes catch glimpse of as the possible meaning of this work? In what ways might it be a metaphor for something larger?
:- Doug.
What do I know
What do I know; and what do I imagine: both can take me deeper. Perhaps both deeper than each.
:- Doug.
Challenges of going to deep?
What are the challenges of my work, of opening space, of going to deep?
:- Doug.
There may be found persons
It’s fear, sometimes: fear of what others will say; or fear of my depths; or fear of not being able to sustain those depths—flat-footedness. Mostly though it is flat-footedness itself: lack of trust in my own playfulness. These hold me back, keep my mouth closed. So?
The result does not matter. Only stepping off into thin air. Only playfulness. Trust play. Trust others to play. Trust mistakes. Put a bounce into your step off. See where it goes. There will be choices to go deep. There will be found poems. There may be found persons. This dialogue of spirit with two or more is new territory. It will engender new skills.
:- Doug.
When I am doing my work what do I imagine?
When I am doing my work, what do I imagine? Do I ever compare that work to something else?
:- Doug.
Is imagination a stand-in word?
Is imagination a stand-in word for spirit? Do I touch something larger when I imagine? More, do I touch something more basic, more real in the same way the whole composes the electrons spinning so fast they seem to be solid matter?
:- Doug.
Many voices within:
Many voices within: it seems important to hear my divers voices. Not sure what they are, but it gives a new view on why my thoughts fly hither and yon every nanosecond.
:- Doug.
