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Come, let us
practice life
throwing to the winds
pasts and futures
seeding worlds a-changing

:- Doug.

Never again
Never before
A moment
Wander-possible
As this

:- Doug.

It is up to us to become what we can together. We can glow. We can be fire.

:- Doug.

Ask each other, How is what we are living thro’ as a people something other generations have lived thro’—death, destruction, new? I cannot consider this section of this chapter finished, for it ever wants to live, to develop, to grow. Thro’ you, thro’ me.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2481

To be many things at once is to be . . . and to be wise . . . and to be real. How many things can you be, and contradictory, in this conversation?

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A guffaw is a state.

:- Doug.

What’s the itsy-bitsiest imaginative thing you can bring?

:- Doug.

How many worlds may we each hold in our arms, you and I, when we imagine—imagine toddlers reaching for a shiny spoon, or elder toddlers reaching for a grandfather’s pocket watch on a chain—what does time mean to either at this stage of life?

:- Doug.

Conversations don’t happen in the world, they are the world, happening.

:- Doug.

Maybe mine is a spirituality of the larger, ever larger. Here, for sure, is an escape from ego.

:- Doug.

The between is the event, the party.

:- Doug.

We seek opportunity in exploring the unknown.

:- Doug.

This life lives us
not separately
together

:- Doug.

Final Q #1: How is it by looking into your eyes I see one like myself? #2: How is it when I lose interest in myself I find myself co-extensive with the all there is?

:- Doug.

Do you see a person’s layers horizontal or vertical?

:- Doug.

This is Superman’s telephone booth—where we change into our super cape.

:- Doug.

Jungle does not mean jumble.

:- Doug.

We offer to share
such as we’ve got
the leak in the roof
the soup in the pot
the leek in the soup

:- Doug.

We are working on a practice of weaving, webbing.

:- Doug.

Will to die
Will to live
Will to live my dying

:- Doug.

Every door is the right door.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2480

How can we dream to change the course of the world when already, or soon, our hands will not be on the levers and ship’s wheel? The seed of the response is already planted in that sentence, in what we yet might plant: Dream. The soil is the next generation and the next as far as our eyes, and theirs, might see.

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We may be about continuity and development—these are our yin and yang.

:- Doug.