Can we utter our best thoughts?
Can we utter our best thoughts?
We must first know them!
& before that figure out how to think
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
My storytelling:
My storytelling: Ask my grandchildren What color is her hair? Gold as the what? What special ability does she have? What is she shy about? What reason does she have to leave her home this day? Whom does she meet next?
:- Doug.
Ways to talk about creativity
I want to find some ways to talk with people about creativity. This is part of the larger. Storytelling, craft work, handiwork: all of these things can draw people into themselves and thereby out into the larger.
:- Doug.
When did the meeting end?
When did the meeting end? When we were all satisfied. Sometimes when we were all frustrated. But did it end too soon? Could we have gotten more creative? Larger? Encountered more of our vulnerability and collaboration? Did it end only because we got tired or relaxed?
:- Doug.
A book that speaks to my big question
Do I mysteriously run into a book that speaks to the big question I have been asking, or do I ask that question of whatever I happen to be reading?
:- Doug.
Your terms of life
Are you living in this place on its terms or yours? Are you still creating your terms of life?
:- Doug.
What do you like to do?
What do you like to do? Have you tried anything new in the last decade? Painting, poetry, pottery? What keeps your spirit young?
:- Doug.
It’s not a risk to change your life
It’s not a risk to change your life for something you want to accomplish or for a cause. It is life. Pour yours out for the greater value given not returned.
:- Doug.
If we could travel to the stars
If we could travel to the stars and when our grandchildren in the 17th generation reached the place, the stars might not be there any more. For what we see as the stars is the light of eons ago, a thread that might just have an other end.
And who are we to our 17th generation grandchildren—the light long since gone out?
And who are they to us—our eternal light still burning?
And what did we do way back today for them? We might not launch that star journey, but our days, every day, launch something. We choose. Or not.
:- Doug.
Surprise is disconcerting?
It is not surprise that is disconcerting as much as a need in me that is now cast aside. The level of disconcert is the level of attachment to the need.
:- Doug.
It’s all opening, even the closing
It’s all opening, even the closing. A folding in on this side of the fabric is on that an opening wide.
:- Doug.
Arguments–spats–like closings
Arguments—spats—seem like closings—I wonder if sometimes they still are openings—especially if we can get past feeling uncomfortable.
:- Doug.
