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To invite deeper conversation: allow something in you to be changed by something in the other and vice versa—What can I learn from you?

:- Doug.

First play with artists
the poets, the painters, the sculptors, & dancers
those who can see afresh and help others see
so seeing we pour out the world
into its next shape

:- Doug.

Open your judging
open your core
open your doing

:- Doug.

To invite deeper conversation: make a philosophical reflection.

:- Doug.

all there is flows
from this we flow
this flows from us

:- Doug.

You are not lost
you are right where
you need to be

:- Doug.

Emergence Varela says goes on all over the universe at once. I see it is a stream without end. Streams in the ocean. So I am emerging as a person, and you are too, and parts of me are emerging on the cellular level and macro level, and things between us, and between our cells, among nations and presidents, among planets and stars, and all is flux of emergence. To find what “wants” to emerge is to be present to the pulse and present in the pulse.

:- Doug.

We can be in the state poetic
or further along
so let us start again
and see if we can take
the poetic to thou
to poetic-poetic
to whole-making whole-making

:- Doug.

We can be aware of life’s spirals at any stage in the process. The object and the advantage is to see more of the stages, more of the process, and ultimately more of whatever contains the process.

We are perhaps only aware of what we see as the “facts” of the It world. Fine. Then let us proceed from where we are; how could we start from any other place?

We can admit that someday this too shall die. From that glimpse we can imagine that we see that something else might replace these facts. We can see that the replacement might be better for different times. We could explore that some replacement might be better for these times. Or accommodate ourselves to the idea that someone else might have a different observation point (and it might even be legitimate!). We have suspended, and stepped into replacement. Then can we free ourselves from our present ideas, even for a few seconds, can we let go the idea that what is is the only way?

Here then is the next step: start it all over.

:- Doug.

A conversation is a compost heap—things get thrown, digested, spit back.

:- Doug.

We let go, throwing the unused food in our heap. That is letting go. The bacteria and natural processes disorganize it, replacing it with something else, that in turn is used as the soil in the garden to provide food, that by turns ends up in some compost heap.

:- Doug.

always remember
the world you see is not
the world I see
neither is even
the world that is

:- Doug.

For life
we do
the good we do
for life

:- Doug.

If you had the ability
to let go your darlings
what would you say next?

:- Doug.

I’m chasin’ ya, Friend
till I am caught
I have a picture of you
what’s your picture of me?

:- Doug.

true freedom allows us to
freely give to humanity
to hazard a life for life

;- Doug.

Practice directness
depart not what we need
intimacy
the higher
some will crave
others spit on you
that is not your concern

:- Doug.

This is where the news is
emerging events, patterns, gestures
but let go of the new, too
intermediate possible, yes and
presence is prologue
suspend even that, sit in a new chair,
let go your babies, especially your babies

:- Doug.

Beautiful drive to and from getting my hair cut. Blue skies, a few clouds suggesting bumpy roads in the sky, just-right cool air. Some light breezes pretty steadily, lots of green, lots of sun, lots of sharp shadows. Nice to just sit in the car and look at all this, no particular thoughts.

:- Doug.

Ahh!
Ahh, beauty!
Ahh, shaping!
Ahh, larger!
Say Ahh!

:- Doug.

What a joy
to just sit here!

:- Doug.

Try something!

:- Doug.

To overcome government spying on its citizens—overwhelm the system.

:- Doug.