Live each moment as though the questions mattered
Live each moment as though the questions mattered.
:- Doug.
Archive for June, 2011
Humans have no land
Humans have no land
The land has them
They are of the humus
& to it they home
Fences are an affront to spirit
:- Doug.
gold tips
One has to be careful
that the gold on one the side of the scale
does not tip out the spirit on the other
:- Doug.
If you must have goals ask
If you must have goals ask
of each are you
nurturing of life, substantial, enduring?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1166–see-far-ers
Footprints in the Windsm # 1166
Elders help us become see-far-ers.
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poems & dreams & doors are we
A series of poems & dreams & doors are we
More than what each might appear (Is this
Why our God is wholly invisible, yes?)
Transport to carry, puzzle to lose our minds,
Labyrinth to walk in contemplation
Between, among: shadows & mists & clearing:
Doors & poems & dreams & stories & questions
:- Doug.
People need weeding
People in my garden need weeding and watering and feeding and sometimes some lightning. They produce, not me, but I can help them send out roots and shoots.
:- Doug.
What good will you be?
What good would you like for your having been on this planet to amount to?
:- Doug.
This red ribbon
This red ribbon
is not the gift
nor are pretty pieces of paper
—it’s in shared glimmerings of life
The gift is the
heart of the giver
:- Doug.
family & life & dreams
At this market we are selling
completeness and wholeness of
family & life & dreams
:- Doug.
The edge of this sea
The edge of this sea
Is before me in mists
I can tell it is vast
& will carry us rowing and splashing
To new and lively shores
:- Doug.
Why a dump truck Will?
Why do you want a dump truck Will? If all you want is to rid yourself of stuff then Who gets it and How should matter little. If it is important who and how, then you owe them to think through how and how much and what and when.
:- Doug.
not the road less traveled by
It’s not the road less traveled by
that makes all the difference
but the taking
:- Doug.
at any moment complete
Who can say when the end
of a human life will be
or therefore its middle?
We think we know the beginning
But each life is at any moment complete
:- Doug.
A Will is a way of nurturing dreams
A Will is a way of nurturing dreams—those of your tribe as a whole, particular ones of your children and other beneficiaries. What do they dream? How can you help? What do you have—especially besides things?
:- Doug.
Loneliness
Loneliness is our greatest suffering. Therefore the work of elder caring is critical.
:- Doug.
power of storm
There is power of storm
in conversation
the power of life
Here are consternation, tears,
sweat, births, madness,
drunkenness, rain, surrender,
absence, lightning, emptiness,
sacrifice, thunder, deaths,
all the rest of the
wholeness we call life
seeded in conversation
the storm of life
:- Doug.
