A quitting place
A goal is a place to get past; a stopping place; a quitting place. Purposes do not stop, are not able to be surpassed.
:- Doug.
Jumping-off place
Your last hot chocolate is a jumping-off place for Human’s next conversation.
:- Doug.
Hands in soil
You can do a bigger thing than just stand back and watch—you can get your hands in the soil and add a wink to the gorgeous blooms hereabout.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2441–If this week were a story. . .?
Footprints in the Windsm # 2441
If this week in your life were a story, what would your story be?
Please pass it on.
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Not all to Kindergarten
We didn’t all go to Kindergarten; just as we didn’t all go to Sunday School.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2440–Do you too hush?
Footprints in the Windsm # 2440
In you I meet early
morning’s fog arising
from garden at pond’s edge
do you too
receive
this hush?
Remove your boots
Please pass it on.
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She is a joker
But even in the stories we concoct, we never get to real. Human always has the last word and she is a joker, ever delighting in surprise. That’s the point of a novel, isn’t it, and a poem? Add a math problem. (Math? Yes: for one reason because there is always a question beyond the question. Can you think of the other reasons?)
:- Doug.
Far more fascinating
Discovering what we don’t know can be far more fascinating that what we do.
:- Doug.
An organism getting wiser
A conversation is an organism that can get wiser and more human as it grows.
:- Doug.
Mutual sloshing
Conversation is how
we make a life
how we make life
and how life makes us:
Through mutual sloshing
:- Doug.
Wrinkle the wrinkles
Conversation conceals itself in crevices and folds. Our work then is to wrinkle the wrinkles, increase the creases!
:- Doug.
