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Write/tell a narrative of your spiritual journey—one’s relation to larger, purer, all of all/being.

:- Doug.

Rob tells me to listen (I add, and hear) to voices on the “other” side. (I ponder “other.”) In politics, that might be black republicans, Buck Angel, Blair White. People with whom I do not agree, trying to understand them, trying to understand my weaknesses: my demonic.

:- Doug.

This is a whole book, or rather, a whole lifetime. Strange, sad, sparkling: This late in life we come to a new horizon! We can live horizontally!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2473

Who will not defend to the death your right to say it?

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Tell me who you are, big picture.
You tell me who humanity is.

:- Doug.

Lay our hourglass on its side
Make of it a telescope
Look thro’ one another
To painted fog banks settling
Revealing flame

:- Doug.

There is much to explore. Here are friends to meet.

:- Doug.

What about you would you like somebody, say me, to witness?

:- Doug.

How can we teach one another to stand aside from our peculiar lives and witness life as it comes, goes, and swirls around?

:- Doug.

A quiet that’s loud. It has a void.

:- Doug.

That we don’t raise our voices to his antics testifies against us that we don’t value, don’t reflect on, don’t exercise, our, nor our fellow humans, freedoms.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2472

Two little yellow butterflies
mere nothings in the universe
yet there they were
pushing each other higher
did they know from higher?
mere nothings in the universe
to it in every way essential

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The bedrock here is ether-real.

:- Doug.

Do we want fireworks, or something that lifts us to higher ground and sustains us there?

:- Doug.

One possible outcome of our efforts is that one or both of us be enlarged.

:- Doug.

Is it possible that greater age does not lend urgency to our projects of life?—that it brings calm and trust?

:- Doug.

Now we reverse the funnel.

:- Doug.

Fall fast then bounce high.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2471

Of course you will irritate one another. Cut those times short. Increase the curious moments. Get momentous!

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Flow is one kind of peak experience.

:- Doug.

Like on vacation—everybody a friend.

:- Doug.

The elder has become of the world and yet beyond it: of the ages. He or she is artful not so much in expressing as in taking-in.

:- Doug.

How can lessened awareness of other and seeing them as our self reside in us? By becoming lessened awareness of, attention to, otherness, noun-ness, thingness, and greater absorption in us-ness and flow.

:- Doug.