hope of dying?
Can someone have a hope of dying?
:- Doug.
What are the meanings of dying?
:- Doug.
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all of this one of us
Meeting brings us into
The presence of all of this one us
The all of the between
:- Doug.
grandchildren flowers and bugs
We show our grandchildren flowers and bugs and things of wonder. We know primally to arouse passions.
:- Doug.
open your heart naked?
The eye deific
how will you engage?
run away in fear?
open your heart naked?
will you converse?
:- Doug.
Drudge and vision
Small and large
we go back and forth
as across a narrow ridge
both drudge and vision necessary
seek more the sun: it gets covered in dust
:- Doug.
The large is the small
The large is the small. The large is here among us. Every day. The small is the large. Here is holy. Here is the life. Can we live the small larger?
:- Doug.
In campfire flickers
In campfire flickers
In softened eyes meeting
What is it about you
Gives us vision
Larger?
:- Doug.
In your meeting glance
In your meeting glance
lie slumbering
new community ideals
new communities
new civilizations
new cosmoses
new humans
:- Doug.
Little path in the drizzle
Little path
In the drizzle
Human scale:
Deific scale:
Possibly meeting
:- Doug.
no bounds
The betweens is where we meet
The betweens is where we are and become
Because Thou knows no bounds
:- Doug.
What Jesus was doing:
What Jesus was doing: not letting people off the hook. Not allowing them to stay in It. Digging deep. Going to their essences. Buber might have wanted that narrow ridge, but the tugging he was doing was toward Thou, because people easily fall into the slough of It.
:- Doug.
Bring people back
Bring people from It back
across the narrow ridge
to Thou
Invite meeting
Ever
:- Doug.
Not a balance
Not a balance but a moving
back and forth—transiting—alternating
stuck is stuck—and deadening
:- Doug.
