“We play what we hear”
“We play what we hear”
We invite where we are invited
Rather, where we are received
:- Doug.
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Wanting the game, neighborhood children
Wanting the game, neighborhood children
for shorter ones allow more tries, shorten distances
Do we as adults still want the game?
:- Doug.
Sand our fingertips
The way we make this the best place to die is to sand our fingertips: to develop our sensitivity to people and their way of dying. Our compassion. We put ourselves in their shoes—won’t we get there someday, too? How do they want to be met? Met, not treated—this is not about doing to. All life is a walking with, a helping one another. How can you, in your work, be strong in your compassion: feel with?
:- Doug.
genius, passion & will: do we continue to put it off?
Do we help people find their
genius, passion & will
or do we continue to put it off
to a day—
which comes when?
:- Doug.
What does it mean to have not wisdom?
To my friends in the wisdom class:
At 66 years of age
What does it mean to not have wisdom?
To have not depth?
At what age does it arrive?
Can anyone teach me
How to find it?
:- Doug.
draw this people out
Our task an ancient one
in this prosaic meeting room
educare
to draw out
this people, us
:- Doug.
my body metamorphoses
How did air come in
& become part of my body?
Essential it is to me yet
“outside” “me”
When I take it in
my body metamorphoses
me into it
& I exhale part of me
In this change
the air becomes more
complete
:- Doug.
participation is the orphan
I speak forth
of participation
not because it is the only
rather in our individualistic age
it is the orphan
:- Doug.
To whom does the soul sing singing alone?
To whom does the soul sing singing alone?
ecstatic, grateful, praising?
whom does the soul meet
for meeting there be?
expression requires no hearing whom
participation is otherwise
in this world we are surely so invited
:- Doug.
A soft space in which to…
Grow to the size of your reality
play! tell your grandchild a story! experiment!
give the organic principle
a soft space
in which to sprout
:- Doug.
Matchstrokes in the dark
If we (today)
cannot give over to wholeness
this entire project
then a few
matchstrokes in the dark
:- Doug.
the baffling wedding
Poetry is
the baffling wedding
of those we think discordants
paradox & metamorphosis
fusion transcendent
:- Doug.
the Holy Fecund
Let us remove our shoes here
before the Holy Fecund
alive in every woman & man
:- Doug.
Meaning is samsara
Meaning is samsara
my friend says to me
maybe meaning for me
is not something we add
to what is not there
but really stands for
something hidden
in a time before
what was never there
:- Doug.
No matter what plays
No matter what
plays before me
I can see
raising my courage,
I can report,
invite our seeing
:- Doug.
What wonder?
Friend, where will you lead us today? What wonder show to us—of you, of us, of us together?
:- Doug.
Flowing metamorphosis
Flowing metamorphosis is what the world is about, and is of the nature of God. Change upon change, unfolding, not discontinuous, barely noticed, always toward better, always toward including, growing.
:- Doug.
