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Now be here I’ve heard
But where is here?
Inside my head? my heart?
Attending the air in & out?
This room?
The immediate world outside this room?
The traffic?
The circle a half mile round?
Our town?
Our planet?
Our world?
More still?
The people about?
The people about whom I know little?
In the presence of presence

:- Doug.

The worse pain
Is the pain you’ve
Inflicted on another

:- Doug.

I do not know, I cannot, uncertainty
angel or God, stops me here and turns me
towards the future I’d not choose but must
Certainty I’d always sought turns out
to be chimera, enemy
With this uncertainty I must grapple
exact a blessing in exchange for my wound

:- Doug.

Grandparent to grandchild questions:

—What do you think the birds see when they look down at us?

—What do the trees see?

—What does your angel think about you?

:- Doug.

A breath, the world
does not forever get larger
in turns it must release
must stop
before it dies to breathe again

:- Doug.

A poem is a way
of setting free
a moment

:- Doug.

Say surprising things
before you leave for work then
go into your day and
say some more

:- Doug.

One of the Garden of Eden stories has woman coming out of man; common experience shows it the other way around. Ought we be curious about this?

:- Doug.

Wrestle with life: this has been the prescription ever since Jacob wrestled with JHWH. We have been given a limp in the part that holds us up, and we will not let the other go till he bless us.

:- Doug.

There is a mystery to be explored, a truth elusive.

We are the mystery and part of a larger mystery. The depth will never be plumbed, and that is the fun part.

We are part of each other, part of the mystery of each other.

It is our job to embrace all of life: embrace, engage; people and other beings as well as things. It is our joy, our fullness as well.

:- Doug.

Be within the flowing
of our world
Pray not
to
God pray
with
with the birds
with the grasses
with the ponds
with the people
among whom you walk

:- Doug.

Today
I do not have to write three pages, only
The truth of the day

:- Doug.

The opposite of weakness is sharing.

:- Doug.

Shh. Yes, you are fragile
No, that is not all right
But you are as all of us
& together & alone
We get to where we can
Share this fragility
There is strength here too
Among us

:- Doug.

Ω 1Violence is stealing
—Stealing another’s choices

:- Doug.

Competition is a subset of engaging one another.

:- Doug.

Once we meet all we are whole. Of course there is always another to meet, another aspect of ourselves to unearth, to infinity. To be met in ourselves and others is light and dark and mystery. That is the whole story, the story still writing itself.

:- Doug.

These are the components of the heart of us, our growing essence (we do not so much want to meet our original selves, but who has grown out of them): we have both light and dark, evil and good, but the light and the good prevail. Thus, the philosopher’s heart (not stone) is engaging ourselves. We need to engage each other because without one another we are not. Hearing, meeting, engaging: these are the central parts of life and once we meet all we are whole.

:- Doug.

Can you a life whole
make out of only
$ & #?

:- Doug.

I’m discovering true depth in what I have learned and even some ability to communicate it.

:- Doug.

Why are they called meteorologists
if they don’t study meteors?

:- Doug.

Stars & black holes
dark matter & light
the universe has
maybe we too

:- Doug.

Wow! Wow wow wow wow wow!

:- Doug.