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Our world transitional: moving from transactional to loving…or we can work in that direction.

:- Doug.

What are the dis-eases of dying?
Won’t be here
Others will hurt
Meaninglessness
Forgotten
Extreme medicalism

:- Doug.

this is subtle
(sand your fingertips)
you are hearing yourself
nor the shallow you
nor solitary

:- Doug.

The politician is about presence.

:- Doug.

The antidote is about presence.

:- Doug.

Making art is
Making sense of our lives
Of memento mori, memento vivere

:- Doug.

I don’t know
What my message is
—But I’ve got one!

:- Doug.

How can I be present to you?

:- Doug.

Be just one person. All settings.

:- Doug.

This is peace. Unknowing. Going.

:- Doug.

First a poet. Then a lawyer.

:- Doug.

Speak the lines. Discover the story.

:- Doug.

It may be good to not know too soon what message is coming through me.

:- Doug.

Why are we not living? We are dulled, our edges removed, as we are tossed around in the mixing machine of life. Yet it is not life that does this to us, but we allow it to happen. We could live. We could leave our near gifts for others and do our true gifts. Do ourselves.

:- Doug.

I could relax into the idea of not knowing. Unknowing going…. Even going on a podium. It is a shared podium, belonging to us all, this earth.

:- Doug.

Perhaps I do not know because of how far-ranging my message is. From G to end of life to living universe to conversing to flow to everything is moving to ripping the grey cloth to meditation/contemplation to wholeness to healing to the all there is to conflict and concord….

:- Doug.

Maybe the message is that we are large, and our largeness is in that still small whisper we carry around and float within.

:- Doug.

Vulnerability is perhaps responded to by exploring the equal souls we have.

:- Doug.

The second thing is to try to make some sense out of what my message is. Then again, maybe it will come with the expressing of it.

:- Doug.

The thinnest of streams
The strongest
Runs between us

:- Doug.

Deer stands alert in wood’s edge shadows
You cannot see
what you don’t want to see
You cannot see
what someone has not pointed out

:- Doug.

Sinew, blood,
hearing, seeing:
togethering us loosely

:- Doug.

To stand in the face
of the other’s soul
To wholly present
your soul
To equal
reaches for your highest
touches holy

:- Doug.