Driving your gaggle of tasks
What might you be missing
As you hurriedly drive along
Your gaggle of little tasks of the day?
:- Doug.
Archive for September, 2011
I do not have to fill this page today
I do not have to fill this page today. It is more important that I have this Now with you.
:- Doug.
Is idleness something more?
What does idleness mean? Merely a chance to let the unconscious mind do its work? Something more? Maybe it means accepting and receiving what is given us? Something more? Let us sit and see.
:- Doug.
Many things to do
Mary Oliver writes in What Do We Know pp 44-45 that there are so many things to do in this beautiful world, so many things to be done. I am reading that as two diverging ways we approach the world. Mostly we have to do lists. But beauty is the really real. Experiencing what the world has to give, receiving without taking: this is what we should choose as why we are here. We work the grinding wheel so that we can ride the Ferris wheel. A little work, a lot of thankful receiving.
:- Doug.
Probate is a door
Probate is less a box
To hold things away for a time
& more a door
That opens and clears the way
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1188–I’m turning red! I’m turning orange!
Footprints in the Windsm # 1188
I’m turning red! I’m turning orange!
Fire now I have, the brightness of my life
Is now revealed, and in the wind
I will dance! Dance with me!
Shouted the leaf, and the whole tree
Came alive with color!
Soon enough we will fall away, rot away,
Become fertilizer and elements for
The whole earth, and for now:
We dance! We share our true colors!
That all the world might be happy
And sad at once, and know wisdom:
So with leaves, so with elders
Please pass it on.
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Gathering us to participate
God is gathering
Togethering
Inviting us all
To participate in
Sweeping cobwebs
Clearing windows
Pulling weeds
Hammering loose boards
Repairing broken glasses
Cooking
Feeding the hungry among us
Healing our infirm
Caring for and listening to our elders
Wholing
All within reach
:- Doug.
For any of us to be whole, everyone must have enough
To be whole, everyone must have enough. For me to be whole, you must have enough as I must. If anyone is cut off, all are.
:- Doug.
What have you done? Withholding food from those without
There are brothers and sisters of all of us who are without enough to eat, without enough shelter from the elements, without medical care: because we withhold it from them. You are the man. You are the woman. You are your sister’s and your brother’s keeper. This is the day when you are called to your conscience: What have you done? What are you doing? Are your actions condemning even one of the least among us to suffer want?
:- Doug.
Violence in the Tea Party
We must participate in the divine great cleanup of the world, cleaning up violence with peaceful measures. It is still a clean-up: we must speak truth to power, we must stand up for what is right for the widows, orphans and poor, we must stand up for enough for all.
The power right now seems to be being wielded by the Tea Party people—this holding the country hostage is in fact violence. They say “We will rip this food and medical care out of the hands of the infirm and least among us.” So it is up to us to speak truth to their power and violence. Speaking truth to violence.
Speaking truth to violence: you shall not storm the gates of heaven, of justice, of righteousness. You cannot take these by force. You must become lambs and children.
:- Doug.
The Merry Band of the Universe
Who first thought we needed a king for the universe? What if we had asked wandering minstrels? Would we have a merry band? Could we yet?
:- Doug.
Questions about seeking to get ahead
If we seek to get ahead in life, we may choose to ask three questions: 1. Of whom or what? 2. Why? 3. What do our answers say about our assumptions and what we most prize?
:- Doug.
Become as large as we are
We seek to love and be loved. We seek intimacy and a giving of our whole gifts. This is the sacrifice: of our separate and separating egos. When we give our whole self to the one dance, we become as large as we are, as we can be each instant: flowing and flowering.
:- Doug.
I am many persons
If you must know
I am fluid
I am many persons
I am the stream
you cannot twice
You and I share
This dance
:- Doug.
A fluid me
I’m a fluid me
& between you & me
& among he & she
every Now
only a bit the same
only this stream then that
the same
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1187–Elder, at the pinnacle
Footprints in the Windsm # 1187
Elder, at the pinnacle of adult
knowing, you are called to jump into
these wider openings you now can see
so to grow us by community
Please pass it on.
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Which makes the world, which unmakes
Conversation is a gift of ourselves—
persona or essence—
lie or truth
we know which makes the world
which unmakes
Do we give the reality
or the cheap substitute?
Which life do we choose to live?
To give?
In each among
we choose
:- Doug.
