the human imagination
We can touch our heightened vision
Here in the bosom of God:
The human imagination
Here the universal life
The universal
:- Doug.
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who are transformed
Those who are transformed
Or open them to the transforming
These are the transformants
:- Doug.
the larger is here this is the center of it
The larger is in the smaller
If it is major
A felt transforming
The larger is here this is the center of it
Grief pulls us larger imagination too
Asking too much is not enough
Colorful transformants fly overhead inviting us
The world tilts the heat increases
Conversation turns us to alternative futures
Our solid foundation is when we perceive and reconstruct
Larger gives us courage to go larger
:- Doug.
appears to me as circular…
God appears to me as circular, spiral-shaped, spiral-shaping: Father-Son-Holy Spirit—true—beautiful—good—opening outward—growing—embracing—
:- Doug.
We argue
I think of God
I think of the sidereal universe
I think of family
I meet a neighbor
We meet another
We argue
We come together
The world shifts
We shift
The future surprises
Each step larger than the last
:- Doug.
All hearts flow here
I sit in worship—here is larger
In walks Beth, her Sam is in hospital
All hearts flow to here—here is larger
Circle circumference spiral—larger still
:- Doug.
Making things out of cannots
A poet makes things out of words
to communicate or tuck away what
words cannot
:- Doug.
The larger does not control us
The larger does not control us
Nor we it
Yet we do each other spin
:- Doug.
In touch with gooey green cheese
Live ever in touch with the larger. This is essential to life. Why? The world in which we live consists in at least two things and those maybe in equal measure: what we perceive by our senses and how we mold those perceptions with our minds, our hearts, and our wills. Where is the larger in that? Clearly it is not all out there and a case can be made that the in here is infinite. Together is the larger. Or connected to it. The larger is not merely in one of us nor yet in a bunch of us—it is in the between of us.
In touch therefore means opening in all possible ways: the five bodily senses; meditation/contemplation; conversation; journaling; reading; and more. Pay attention. Engage.
Engage those who engage.
And not for little o our good. For big O Our good: the whole. This means doing good for others. Not just our family but for people we may never meet. All life. All stars.
We find ourselves at the center of it all. If we pay attention.
The center is gooey green cheese. Or whatever we say it is. However fantastic, we can make something of what was said, we can mold ourselves, our hearts, our minds. Big O Our.
Our hearts we under-develop in our age, even denigrate. Our will in some senses we ignore. So our becomes little o. We center our lives in detached little balls, bouncing off one another, protecting ourselves from one another. If we but once open our brittle shells and let one another and the larger in, we would find we can live larger.
In short: if we touch the larger we find ourselves larger. Transformed we live larger.
Opened we live opening.
:- Doug.
Why, Where, What does it look like?
Why, Where, What does it look like? Does it express your true self?
:- Doug.
Can we reach bedrock?
Can we reach bedrock?
Conversation knows only infinite betweens
Intricacies to explore to make
:- Doug.
At your age
At your age, have you done what you came here to do, yet? Have you sung your song, written your book, hugged enough?
:- Doug.
