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We may not be of one blood
still, of one coursing
one rhythm

:- Doug.

We can be larger than this.

:- Doug.

Flashes and flows
enfoldings unfoldings
of the holomovement
all my relations
all at once

:- Doug.

What do you want if you are dying? Which of the senses are most important to you—do you see what I am saying, hear me, are you touched by what is going on? What do you smell, can you taste of something more juicy?

Are rituals important? Hugs? Beauty? Knowledge? Doing something good for someone else? Teaching your grandchildren? Communing with your dog? Being with friends, children, siblings, grandchildren? Working on closure with others, mutual forgiveness, mending fences? Saying Thank you? Saying I love you? Music? Celebrations? Trips? Experiences? Memorials, memoirs, making sense of your life?

:- Doug.

The notion of challenging is something to attend. I want to challenge the people in my class tonight. I want to challenge my clients. Everybody needs to stretch. How may I stretch myself to stretch those with whom I meet? Take it a step further than I am comfortable going publicly. Let people in.

:- Doug.

Elder caring is the only field of law where I get to openly love my clients.

:- Doug.

It’s hard to tell demagogues from imbeciles
It’s hard to tell demagogues anything

:- Doug.

An open G
I go to fill in
so others will recognize
my intuition closed off
my being suffocating

:- Doug.

Consider the world a being
your footprints mingling in the wind
with those of the thousand-thousand others
all coming and fading at once no time
energy mass same thing you me one dance
no place all here generating alive
consider this world your being

:- Doug.

We’re here to challenge one another—how might I challenge you?

:- Doug.

If you cannot go back to your former self (as if life ever goes back), what kind of outcomes do you want? Do you want to concentrate on your life or your medical treatments? On your family? On your preferred activities? On things beautiful such as music and nature? On spiritual, religious, or philosophical growth? On doing some good for others?

:- Doug.

The cosmos is expanding, and for all we know, faster than the speed of light. For what are we making room?

:- Doug.

On a spherical planet, our love lines back and forth between us are bound to become a circle, an embrace, all of all.

:- Doug.

Here’s why this candidate and this demagogue grates on so many and attracts so many: their egos see the world as a one-way street from them to the non-them. This is the attraction: with simplicity they will fix all those bad actors and bad things. This is their danger: they will allow for no traffic from the other direction. They will allow for no input from you. Hitler, Saddam, Putin, and these.

:- Doug.

Flexible boundaries have we.

:- Doug.

Aware of the whole
A very possibility
From watchful waiting

:- Doug.

Non-local could be ultra-local: far dispersed from the controlling center. Every point has touch points with the whole and every other, and all are influenced by all and the whole. Pinch my toe and “I” feel it. Not a question of distance, nor of control, but of propagation. Every where, when, and thing is local to every other.

:- Doug.

We spend a lifetime building up a career. Then, in late years, we ourselves be ourselves. We find ourselves free. We find our selves. Sometimes it happens! Just for now!

:- Doug.

Looks like I am trying to capture all that I have learned in my recent reading-thinking. I cannot capture it all!

:- Doug.

Space-time
Energy-mass
Moving-now
Betweens-meeting
Whole-part
Body-mind
One

:- Doug.

I bestow upon every one who reads these words
And every one who does not
The energy of the universe
Its movement, rhythm, and mass
The ability to touch beyond your skin

:- Doug.

We are approximately
each other

:- Doug.

I can progress reading
an old book or a new
going to the timeless or the now

:- Doug.