In that still small place
In that still small place
roam
:- Doug.
Experts Surveys Research
Lie outside us
Lie
When we could have
Done
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Heart-shaped rock
Heart-shaped rock
held in my hand
heat exchanges slowly
rock-shaped hearts
will take holding
longer than I hoped
to warm
:- Doug.
Why am I working today?
Why am I doing this? Why am I working today?
Well, why? To get ahead of things, to get ready for clients, to be less stressed come Monday. To get further down the road on my Holy Work; to give me some pondering reflecting time.
This is holy time, time to do my Work, capital-W. Clear some space in both this day and the upcoming days to reflect, to touch the larger. So the world is just that much larger, and so I can perchance show others some of that larger.
A good question to ask ourselves each day: Why am I doing this? Why am I working today?
:- Doug.
The group doesn’t need my presence
The group doesn’t need my presence
only their own
doing modifying
knowing their own presence remembering
they can do and modify again again
:- Doug.
our energy
our energy
our power
resides in
is released in
our relating
not in steel
nor flint
in touch
:- Doug.
Today’s Socrates will ask
Today’s Socrates will ask
Students not so they will find answers
On some webbed network
But so they will raise
Reflective questions
To carry us beyond answers
To more reflective questions
:- Doug.
Get over evidence!
Get over evidence! What possibilities we can imagine are larger than all pasts: let the dead pasts keep burying themselves. Our brains are plastic, our lives pliable. Make new. Make better.
:- Doug.
Seeing a future discontinuous from the past
Observers participate in creating reality—this we are told by physics. So as observers of our politics, consumers of our economy, citizens of our jobs, professions, and the Web, we create these things everyday. Or let them wash over us, creating us to be pawns. Our creating can start with seeing other than accustomed characteristics and possibilities for what is. Suddenly, see more.
:- Doug.
In my 68th year, incline
In my 68th year I have health, energy, and am as happy as I can remember. But life is seldom a straight line: ought I do something to ready myself for decline? Yet how can I know the shape of that decline? Making memories of a full life might be a thing to do. Make strong my spiritual and larger practices—meditation/contemplation, writing, poetry, conversing—this is perhaps optimal preparation. These can prepare me to incline as a few things decline.
:- Doug.
The first thing we wish each other?
What is the first thing we wish each other each year?That the year be happy. There is wisdom just beneath the surface here: wealth and fame are not what we want most; not even health. Yet on the second we go back to work and chase these second order goods when the first is at our hand.
:- Doug.
A stone in your stomach
Do what pleases you
We carry hate
Not in our hands
Does it please you to carry
A stone in your stomach?
:- Doug.
Does it follow Newton or Bohm or Seuss?
When I have a thought
I want to ask
Is it a memory a twist
Or some new direction?
Is it limited in particles or waves?
Does it follow Newton or Bohm
Or Seuss?
:- Doug.
Washes over us gently
Washes over us gently
ever moving, peaceful
strong, irresistible
buoying, imperceptibly quick
a sea the world is
:- Doug.
