You must drown to breathe
To engage the world, invite
Inviting is scary:
welcoming differing voices to your hearth
you might be obliged
to turn your life or words
You must drown to breathe
You must, now, invite
:- Doug.
Archive for February 20th, 2012
We walk away
Today we don’t want to speak our questions and fears, to tell one another what concerns us about the other’s words and actions: we simply walk away. We don’t try to resolve differences—or imagined differences—we walk away. We are timid, do not want to hurt another’s feelings, or more precisely want to avoid the work of conflict, so—we walk away. We choose isolation over the possibility of life-giving encounter.
:- Doug.
Time is not a commodity
Time is not a commodity, not a thing on a shelf. It is a concept by which we separate out little segments of our being, saying This far and no farther, This much of me and no more. Instead say Yes! Invest yourself prodigally: hold nothing back. No stoppers, no limits.
:- Doug.
