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Home is the place where especially we the broken can be accepted as whole and as the best the world owns.

home
is
whole-making
is
home

:- Doug.

What are the conversations your heart has always desired? What are you waiting for?

:- Doug.

Air swirls all about
You make the swirls
As you move
As others move about you
In your wake—
Newness &
Trails of life

:- Doug.

In your Will you might leave your loved ones a larger thing than you’ve already got figured out.

:- Doug.

When we concentrate our mind on one thing, we are controlling or more precisely trying to control our thoughts. A more gentle thing would be to watch.

:- Doug.

Restoration to the ease of a body of 40 or even 30 is not possible for a body of 80 growing translucent. It may not even be desirable. But healing—wholeness—is possible and desirable.

:- Doug.

If we care to devise a path that will hold, it is necessary to have a diversity of people in the mix. To go a way that satisfies a few or only a majority, the others are left behind or will pull another way; the circle will not hold. Complex populations demand we include all complexities. A simple, solid, lasting way needs to hear all voices. Simplistic and one-sided ways are doomed; hearing everyone leads to elegant and even simple ways.

:- Doug.

I suppose this is what we try to do in conversation: convey our selves, not just our ideas. We want to be accepted and loved and that takes conveying, moving ourselves from here to you.

:- Doug.

It occurred to me this morning that words seek to specify something about something, that they try to take the something apart and look at just a part of it, and that is why then words do not work for larger things like divinity and wholeness.

:- Doug.

Divinity is
Dreaming us

:- Doug.

We touch our world
Our neighbors
Thinking to move them
They to move us
See, it is all a dance

:- Doug.

Limitless
Boundless
Waiting

:- Doug.

The mystery is the learning
Getting lost is the way

:- Doug.

We are more like the water of springs than we know—and most often like its brittle ice.

:- Doug.

Trusts: why complicate your life if you don’t have to? Simple can be elegant and your best fit.

:- Doug.

There is only one life
& we’re each living part of it
& we’re all living all of it

:- Doug.

We may be different people for each person we meet but all the persons we meet and all we can meet and all we ever are, are one.

:- Doug.

Wanting the boundless for others as well as for myself has to be what I am about or I am not worthy of my work.

:- Doug.

Could it be that
poetry makes the poet
(& not simply comes through the poet)?
So who are we
& what do we invent?

:- Doug.

Boundless
We build
We unbuild
Both one activity
Boundless

:- Doug.

No one wants to die unhappily. And yet, sometimes we force this on each other.

:- Doug.

Knowing partakes of both separation (for we can only seek to know what is unknown) and unity (for we seek in knowing to bring the unknown into us). We seek ever something new—that is, to push away—and ever to bring that new inside us—to become one with it.

:- Doug.

Clouds unmoving try
as the winds and gusts might we
cannot look up to see a smiling
God and even
here is there rest

:- Doug.