Sustainability for what?
Just as we ask “Saved for what?” we need to be asking “Sustainability for what?” “Long-term survival of our species for what?”
:- Doug.
Archive for May 31st, 2007
from out our mouths
The hearer calls the notes
from out our mouths
—and hears no tune
but only garbled words—
and we ourselves are denied
our tune
until the hearer calls
:- Doug.
A slight change
Transformation is a slight change
in attention
intention
Small changes, initial conditions, new worlds!
The and is central to I and Thou
The stretch of conversation brings us to life
The stretch begins with a slight change
in attention
intention
Slight change
Little and
attend
intend
stretch
the root of attend intend is stretch
stretching perspective
conversation turns us
seeds transformation
:- Doug.
The and
The key to I and Thou is in the and. Here we add; here we are more than we are. Here we meet and birth and are birthed. Here we exist and probably no place else. Here in and. Whom can you be and with?
:- Doug.
