What leaves you breathless?
What leaves you breathless? What, after all these years, O jaded one?
:- Doug.
Archive for July 28th, 2006
Self-organization and the poet
To our good friends–
Things happen by themselves. Things are invited. Both are true. We can be affected; we can affect. Both are meeting. For which is this time? We have a once per life point of view which we owe to the world. Offering it is sometimes served by accepting from the flow. Even when we’d rather give. We must exercise the courage to inject our piece, even when we have to stand against the raging sea. We must exercise the courage to sit and wait. Stand up, speak up: even if you have to sit down and shut up to do it. Action and inaction have one origin. That is why the poet changes the world without muscle, accomplishes without effort.
:- Doug.
Celebrating our imperfection
To our good friends–
The idea of celebrating our imperfection is not to say there is no bad in us nor to say the bad is good. Rather it is to take a clear eye to it to see if it is A. “poor me” or B. “wretched me” or C. “evil me” or D. “me.” If it is just “me” then there is something we can do with that, yes? We can grow from there, do? We can meet and meet G*d? With the others our choices are limited: moan, belittle, beg, imprison, kill. Choose clear-eyed. Choose life.
:- Doug.
