Hinting may serve us better
While we cannot speak of God very well when we speak prosaically, poetry and evocation and hinting may serve us better.
:- Doug.
Archive for January, 2012
Long-Term Care: Mysterious words and ways and…
Long-term care mixes the mysterious words and ways of medicine with the arcane rules and regulations of bureaucrat and insurance giant, and presents you with choices, the consequences of which you cannot yet see. Yet there are people in these labyrinths who are warm and caring and will help you holding nothing back.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1216–We in America have lost our way
Footprints in the Windsm # 1216
We in America have lost our way. Perhaps we in the whole of the earth. We have lost our heart, our vision. Surely we are perishing. Perishing in a world of hate and division (di-vision?), of people too moderate, of holy wars and physical killings, of genocide and homophobia, of refusing to see the other as our sister. We have no longer the pride in our melting pot, no longer the songs that call us together, no longer any brother-feeling. A choice we do not see, maybe do not want to see, lies before us: we can jump into this endless slough; or we can do the hard work of moving us all to higher ground. If we choose the latter the only way, the only way, is the work of finding and meeting and freeing the higher that is common among us. Therefore we must get out among us. We must meet people and be open to the surprising in us. From here arise new hymns and songs.
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A robin on a snowy day
On this snowy day, there is a robin on the little tree between the pond and the garden! Either this one is early or late or confused!
:- Doug.
Cast your line into the water
I can be your guide, but you’ve got to cast your line into the water.
:- Doug.
All life is guessing
Law is not solely about the technicalities: it goes beyond to what works, what is apt to work, and where peoples’ hearts want to go. All life is guessing; we must work also with art and heart.
:- Doug.
Heart and hearing
What I bring to my clients, to the law: sensitivity and caring: heart and hearing. These two things.
:- Doug.
Getting through the long-term care woods
You can get to the other side of the woods by many paths: some have bogs and some briers and some are better trodden, but even the better worn still have precarious spots and some unfriendly critters here and there. The paths run high above a stream, with just a little ledge of loose rocks to walk on. There are twists and turns and choices to be made, choices with consequences. These are the long-term care woods.
:- Doug.
How do I wish to do business?
How do I wish to do business? I wish for the good of all the whole, each of us, person & species & thing, a loving one creation. So keep that foremost and do business in that direction.
:- Doug.
A modern nursery tale: On getting the government in or out
Tweedle Dee says let’s get the government in
Tweedle Dum says let’s get the government out
Both say the government is the answer
But notice: we are the government
:- Doug.
more conversations and smaller
With more conversations and smaller more space is opened and wider.
:- Doug.
What we shouldn’t tell our grandchildren
We shouldn’t tell our grandchildren that they have a lifetime in front of them. Don’t sugar coat. They have a few short years and had better choose wisely and get to work quickly and effectively.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1215–There’s a pill for that
Footprints in the Windsm # 1215
Far more than
“There’s an app for that”
Our medico-economic complex teaches
“There’s a pill for that”
“There’s a pill for every that”
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A God who is merely magic will not do
A God who is merely magic will not do, for then we would ask questions like, Why does our God allow bad things to happen to good people?
:- Doug.
this you who plays
I must find you
this you who plays
and brings to flower
from us our
genius
:- Doug.
What is done with language?
What is done with my language, what is the play of it, what do you hear, what do we hear together and say together this now? And how does this create us anew this time?
:- Doug.
