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Friend, you are blowing through the trees and grass, the clouds and insects, the birds, houses, and Internet, and me.

:- Doug.

Heaven is now
Beloved community is now
We get to work

:- Doug.

Beyond images
G*d is

:- Doug.

We must reverence more than we ordinarily do. You are every here. So I seek you when I am already found, where no seeking is needed, but my attending is what needs work. How do I attend to you? You are among us, you are within us, we bow to you within each. Why do I want to see? Why an image?

The image we carry, of a grey haired man on a big chair, with marionette strings in one hand lightning in the other, is in danger of being engraved in our senses. No graven images we are cautioned. So hold our images as lightly as we can—let them fly as we are able.

:- Doug.

The world’s a magic place
all ready for you & I
to pop out!

:- Doug.

I don’t care whether we use probate or some other tool: let’s just get the job done.

:- Doug.

Here is a poem that wrote me….

:- Doug.

I may have an object of my attention but not a goal. Where I choose to place my attention is more flexible, capable of being superseded as needs arise.

:- Doug.

People are meetings: meetings of two or more movements.

:- Doug.

What’s here? Who’s here? These are the objects of meditation/contemplation.

:- Doug.

How necessary death is to life. We cannot survive a day without something dying, such as the plants and animals we call our food. The soil is the excrement of worms. This year my garden has lots of worms, so it seems healthy to me. Death and decay are part of the very cycle of life. One corollary to this is anything which grows and grows but has lost the ability to die is a cancer. What do we have that we expect to grow and grow and never die? Businesses and governments. People generally recognize the ill effects of these organisms which seek to take over our lives. What will happen to us when one or more of these does become too big to die? Will we be eaten by our own?

:- Doug.

How might we converse on a root level with God? What and where is the tap root of God?

:- Doug.

We owe it to ourselves at least once in our lifetimes to converse fiercely.

:- Doug.

Can we ever stand outside our thinking and see what it is doing?

:- Doug.

We can always be more happy, and that means more whole. And more sad, and more grieved, and more involved with one another. All this too means more whole.

:- Doug.

If people are seeking closing and completing, rounding of their togethering, then their relatings need to heal. This is the purpose of forgiving and thanking and blessing and loving: to make whole. This comes about through radical conversing: saying what is at the root of us. Forgiving and thanking et al. are tools for digging to the roots. Digging can be done an inch deep or root deep.

:- Doug.

Conversing is a sword’s edge, Excalibur. It cuts deeply, to heal.

:- Doug.

We cannot radically converse all the time: it would be too much for us. But in each life we ought to meet this way once.

:- Doug.

To get where we want to go we have to stop going everywhere else. To center our selves we need for a moment to stop scattering our selves.

:- Doug.

End of life conversing is vitally important to me because radical conversing heals. Because radical hearing heals.

:- Doug.

Now contains all
A cinnamon roll
Layers enfolding
Many Nows & Heres
Infinite jewels
Containing, reflecting
Infinite jewels

:- Doug.

Into your multiplicity of Nows.

:- Doug.

We live in one
multiplicity

:- Doug.