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Walk your path
babies & hot coffee require walking
remember also what requires running

:- Doug.

In some cultures the true name of the child is not announced, so that it can grow strong, and not be laughed into smallness by the outside world. We need to guess our own power name, and that of those with whom we walk.

:- Doug.

sunsets, flowers and babies
tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis and
people helping
heart motions, spirit swells
the paired parts of this human
civilized and wild
what do you want, and what does the deepest part of you desire?

:- Doug.

I am finally finding a way to bring together my law work and my poetry work.

:- Doug.

Part of our depth is but
a pendulum swinging
our swaying leg to leg

:- Doug.

We are here to do deep work
To do deep work, we must hear
…one another

:- Doug.

Life is two:
double
dual
paired
Here we live:
safe & wild
mean & gracious
laughter & tears
Hear, we live

:- Doug.

Life is not competitive. There is competition within life to be sure, but it is within cooperation: to advance life.

:- Doug.

Not suffer:
sacrifice
let us

:- Doug.

Let us turn away from
guilt-edged religion

:- Doug.

From a cliff she leaps
the pearl diver
maybe the height helps
her dive so deeply
so quickly
nearly naked with only a knife
if we are to dive into each other
and find the pearls
from what high cliff do we leap?

:- Doug.

Can we stretch one another? Kindly, gently? Is there a way to call together people who do not look the same, who share only breath, and invite them, invite us, to share more?

:- Doug.

There is good all about us, even in those with whom we disagree. Can we engage each other and not vilify?

:- Doug.

I respect the pain of the older ones; I cannot always alleviate it. This is the difference between caring and care. I respect the beauty of each soul, and seek to hear it out into the open.

:- Doug.

What is it important to meet about? Every creature around us needs us to sniff in its beauty, to respect its pain.

:- Doug.

There is a power we have
A feral power inbred in us
& between & among us
When we own it we walk forward
Whole

:- Doug.

Go out to meet
One step or one league
Every person your guest

:- Doug.

We cannot hold up a doll and say this is God, because whatever we say is incomplete.

:- Doug.

G*d is one who hides and asks us to seek. Or is our milieu so present as to be forgotten.

:- Doug.

To retire means to withdraw from active life; why do that?

:- Doug.

In writing about legal or medical topics there is a danger of giving too much info which is at the same time too little. The danger arises from transferring fact without nuance. Truism without truth can kill. Info without understanding of the web within which it exists can do great harm. The direction we need heed is wholeness.

:- Doug.

After checkmate
the players walk away

:- Doug.

Conversation is improv
writ large & small

:- Doug.