It is about Now to go to my meeting. It is about Now.
It is about Now to go to my meeting. It is about Now.
:- Doug.
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Babble & number & tic-toc
Babble & number & tic-toc
Babble and number & click-clock
Babble & number & click-lock
These are our gaolers
& they fear to let free our natural souls
:- Doug.
Now can we
All our lives preparing
our homework
for jobs
for weddings
for parenthood
for a new career
for company
for dinner
but now we are 60 or 70 or 80
but now is it finally Now
now can we live
now can we give
what we came to give?
:- Doug.
making this time in our lives important
Let’s make
this time in our lives
important
To make this moment:
First, a moment
Then, others to meet
Finally, focus on holy other
:- Doug.
getting heard energizes
Hearing energizes us, being heard especially energizes us. Being heard and hearing give us hope and invite us out to engage the world, free us, call us home.
:- Doug.
Wholeness includes paying debts
Wholeness includes love and paying debts (getting whole with your creditors): and everything.
:- Doug.
No, you don’t need money
No, you don’t need money
you don’t even need the things
you think money buys
what every one of us needs is
life, wholeness, happiness
:- Doug.
tune in the news
I tune in the news
to see how the weather forecast
has since yesterday changed
:- Doug.
The rains are not sent by God
The rains
—refreshing, cooling,
thundering, changing vacations,
feeding, cleansing, renewing—
The rains
are not sent by God
They are God
:- Doug.
poet’s work
Stretching words
peeling their rind
digging out their fruit center
finding their seed
such is the poet’s work
:- Doug.
Meeting meeting itself
Meeting means not only meeting another being as such but meeting meeting itself. “May there be a goodly share on every table everywhere” means responsibility for humans and for me. Meeting implies responsibility in response. Meeting meeting in its moving. Meeting a mirroring: responding to responding.
:- Doug.
The dashes
I-Thou and I-It it seems to tell us something in their respective dashes: In one case it is one directional, in the other multi dimensional. Maybe that is a clue to understanding Buber anew.
:- Doug.
threading between beings
What if the holy were the strandings between beings: the pulsing threading; always moving; touching, meeting? This meets the test of verbing: holy other. It meets the test of being in presence in nature. It meets the test of Indra’s net.
:- Doug.
To soothe, to work, to march….
To soothe, to work, to march, to joke, to laugh, to cry, to bury, to plant, to build, to be with, to reflect, to make pies and meaning, to cut down, to die, to birth, to worship: we come together.
:- Doug.
a good more ancient
Bringing people together is,
than money, a good more ancient
than money, a thing more sacred
:- Doug.
If the economy won’t recover soon….
If we are likely not going to go into the swinging years like we had in the 90s (Oh, but we did not know it then!) and the first 7 or so years of the 00s, then we have to learn to live a new way, or at least this is an opportunity to invite people to converse about a better way to live. What is the work we need to do?
Really, the question is, can we turn our thinking around to working from humanity, and then, if we thought it good, to changing our currency and other accouterments to support that working?
The desired way of thinking it seems to me has these characteristics: attention to humanity; attention to voice over words; meeting (which is a form of attention to voice); long-term thinking (keep the trees, promote life, do good work rather than seek short term profits); putting purpose ahead of profits; bringing capacity and need together; letting be, not controlling, not wanting to control but to open to what might emerge, to welcome it, to seek it out.
:- Doug.
