backgrounds and backdrops
No more backgrounds, all we have are backdrops. In a quantum relative world, especially.
:- Doug.
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“for spacious” too
The skies today are beautiful
“for spacious” too
that’s what I love about the deep blue
today for sure
equally the fluffy clouds all round embracing me
:- Doug.
Bad guys have to deal with us
As long as any of us live, the bad guys have to deal with us.
:- Doug.
Could these get elected?
Could Jesus get elected? Buddha? Muhammad? Martin Luther King, Jr.? Lincoln? Have we buried them for good? For better?
:- Doug.
failing to imagine
Is fighting getting us into more than a quagmire? What we have in conflict is failing to imagine.
:- Doug.
Teacher! Elder!
Teacher! A wonderful stand in word for elder! We are all teachers sometimes, yes?
:- Doug.
A new direction of thought:
A new direction of thought for me: Are folks with dementia exploring for us, pointing us to, a reality that is where we come from and to where we are headed? (I don’t like the feeling of that: I feel that even spirals should have a forward and not simply circle back. Reality does not have to match my feeling.) A reality that is wholeness. A larger. Then what was this conscious and particle life all for? Does it make us wholer? If life is not about learning in a brain-like milieu, then what larger growth? Growth in love, conversation, meeting? Surely we have seen the reports of the good, profound times for these teachers and us students.
:- Doug.
Floating in warm fluid we
Floating in warm fluid we
are birthed into a harder world
eyes, developing, pick out
shapes, movements, us, ears
developing pick out words
Those who are going on ahead
some of them
are going the other way
into fluid worlds
becoming one body soul world
the all there is too?
:- Doug.
subtle and unconscious references to time
We have many subtle and unconscious references to time—while, again, until, now, next, first, elder, experience, then, suggests, when, remember, cause, foundation, before—these at least reinforce our time orientation.
:- Doug.
reel runs faster
The reel runs faster as it runs out
Changes come in large sizes
With great speed, and often:
Into my accumulating years
I am hurtling
:- Doug.
to lose your mind
It’s hard to lose your mind
It’s hard to realize it’s happened
Actually, it’s easy to lose your mind
:- Doug.
In elder years
In elder years we enter a time of great and rapid change, mostly irreversible, and holding the possibility of something good if we open.
:- Doug.
At times unsettled
At times we feel unsettled
Times we are settled
Let us be kind to ourselves either “time”
:- Doug.
Fifty years as an adult
Fifty years as an adult. I am feeling mature. I am feeling stable. I am on a solid launching pad for what comes next.
:- Doug.
