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G*d loves. Religionists love to play with words of hate.

:- Doug.

Wish beyond wishing
For Daddy Do-All
To rescue you from life
Make you wealthy
Beyond your effort
& stupidity
However much you pray to him
This is not God
But your disease
Grow up
Meet your parent
Take your responsibility
Meet each other
Meet G*d

:- Doug.

Make it fun
Take it deep
Do the work
A program
A recipe
For spicy life

:- Doug.

G*d draws together &
G*d creates
About G*d’s business I am
G*d cannot be captured in a jar
Held prisoner in words
Why try so?
Let G*d live

:- Doug.

My heart calls to heart.

:- Doug.

Something larger than you is afoot in the universe. It is this larger that lifts you, when you turn your heart to it. You will not see it if you choose. It is still there. Waiting. Available as your lover. Inviting.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 932

Distance
—from me to my spouse
—from me to G*d
—from me to myself
—from me to you
—from conversation to conversation
—from mind to mind & heart to heart
Distance adds dimension
Distance adds depth, profundity, texture
Distance is necessary to living fully
Distance gives riches, depth, death, grief
to emptiness, openness, living, celebrating
Distance is color, shadow,
the missing from the present
the more
beyond beyond
How far away are you?
May tell you how pregnant our life is

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Spirit and matter interweave, hold each other. Inter-embrace.

What then are we to do? Take care of the body, take care of the world, take care of nature, revere them, for in so doing you are lifting your soul.

:- Doug.

The sky today is open, inviting, calling us out to play. This be a good day, come!

:- Doug.

Another glimpse overnight: consider. A good word soft and gentle to invite to silence, to invite to slip into meditation/contemplation. Consider.

Consider means together to look at the stars the sky.

:- Doug.

Sit with me
Let us both listen
Consider

:- Doug.

Deserve
What do all humans
Deserve?
A great delight—
Alchemy of the heart
Says Kazantzakis
What do you say?
A dream to come true?
Simply a dream?
Work, sweat?
Punishment?
Love?
Respect?
Being heard?
All humans
The world offers much…

:- Doug.

Here I am
Father, Grandfather
Having given
The ultimate
The gift of life
Searching
Wanting to give

:- Doug.

The greatest gift is to give life
I wrote once
And all I write may be true
For a day only
If that
All is lesser than that
I wrote once

:- Doug.

A gift larger than life itself
To grow that life
Free open embracing

:- Doug.

How are we one?
Such is our quest
To discover
How are we one?

Every meeting
Every conflict
Every dancing
Every turning

This is our task
Known, unknown
To discover
Perchance create

How are we one?

:- Doug.

What would cause the lives of our heirs to sing?

Let us think about our heirs, our children, our grandchildren: What kind of a sense of humor does she have? What are his interests? With what does her imagination soar? What’s his greatest heartbreak? If she had a year off, what would she do? What’s his dream? What does she like to do? How does he rejuvenate?

From this attending to people we can learn what we can do, and what gifts we have—probably beyond money—which can encourage, inspire, boost them. What is the absolute best we can do by our grandchildren? What responsibility do we have to them? How can we respond today?

:- Doug.

Ephemeral—here for but a day—may in fact be the permanence: we see something of meaning, we glimpse hope or sorrow or values within the fibres of life and world, fleeting around the corner, leaving only a shadow to hint to us, and it is in this shadow that we see the really real, the permanence underlying our existence, the existence of the all there is. What is most fleeting may in fact be what is most enduring. Momentarily happy, momentarily loving—what can we do this moment? What we can do this moment is manifest the timeless?

:- Doug.

Purpose runs ahead of Beauty
Meaning follows Truth
Goodness is

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 931

Tread lightly on
our Earth
Leave your Footprints in
the Wind

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Life is more than Dollars and numbers—there is a music, a rhythm of drums, a swaying of skirts. There is a sun; there is also a moon—and other planets. There are beets and cabbages—there are also bananas and coconuts.

:- Doug.

Have goals remembering they are for the small things of life—pick up the laundry, wash the pots, make a few bucks. Have purposes for the large, purposes which set you bounding, purposes which forever call you forth into life’s green fields fertile.

:- Doug.

In poetic law, we not only do but ponder: in gifts and donees we see meaning; beyond Dollars and numbers love. We look among the trees and find forests & paths & sunlit openings. In streams flowing we find future and adventure. Out of grey mists, rolling up sleeves, we create.

:- Doug.