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We can only be real
together
only who and what we most are
show our colors
all of them
touch our happy spots
and know them touched
apologize, grieve, cry,
fight, forgive,
repent, grow,
begin anew

:- Doug.

We have withdrawn into our one person cars. We won’t give up our cell phones for a meal with our mates or children.

Our most imperative deepest felt inborn need is to meet and be part of one another on a level of being and essence. Who are you? I see you. I really see you. I invite you to really see me. I am vulnerable. I am real. We can only be real…together.

:- Doug.

How many more colors
rainbows of colors
could our universe reveal?
Unknown shades and hues reside
—but covered in grey cloth—
in your heart and mine
rip—one way sure—converse!

:- Doug.

Why do we care if people converse? The answer is Why do we care if people live? It makes life more alive for all of us. It is a matter of having a universe of more colors. It is spreading rainbows: rainbows of love. What are the colors of love? It is, in fact, ripping the grey cloth.

:- Doug.

Richer more loving our days
if in the early hours
we make quiet—& hear

:- Doug.

It’s not a hearing if one side is deaf.

:- Doug.

I have met him and he quickly fades: he cannot become memory. He is only real, only met.

:- Doug.

How would we diagnose these spiritual times? A rising of new spiritual humanity—a spirit of shared life in earth, all her critters, humans & the universe—contended with by a killing field saying everything is money, & everyone a total stranger?

:- Doug.

It’s easier for a lawyer to start the end of life conversation because we start it earlier, when it is less immediate, and less complicated with urgent and intense medical and emotional issues. We can prepare people.

:- Doug.

Gathering filaments of the fibre weaving being woven touching many directions expecting Real everything touches everything everything’s always moving we are a part of the all there is shot through with the all there is when a feather touches any part the web reverberates everywhere and we are

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1271

We don’t have to say it all, hinting’s enough.

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Let us
gather people
activate filaments
living relations
among & between
all us

:- Doug.

Wouldn’t statesmen (politicians grown large) gather people rather than divide?

:- Doug.

I-Thou includes; I-It separates.

:- Doug.

To test the candidates:
Which one opens you out
Which one closes you
Into a cold hard shell
Makes you shrivel?

:- Doug.

The butterflies
The wind
The sun
The earth beneath
Moving, everything is moving
Moving, interacting
With
All around
Moving is loving

:- Doug.

Expectin’, Real, Love is real not fear, Betweens, Relating, Relating is love, love relating, Everything relates, Everything is moving, Openin’, Real, Expectin’

:- Doug.

We are one in our relating: living is relating, relating living.

:- Doug.

Politicians are the great cynics of our age, calling wrong and jeering at all that is not them. In their little fight they call large, they miss the essence: we are one, brothers, sisters.

:- Doug.

Is only betweens when we meet: thread without ends. We pull, we are tugged, we are the thread.

:- Doug.

Who does the opening, who is opened, when ever we meet? Is no who, when….

:- Doug.

Just sittin’
here
expectin’
G*d
openin’

:- Doug.

The universe is streaming mutually. Everything is moving. Everything is moving toward or away from everything else.

Mainly the universe is streaming in relating. We touch another, we are touched, we shrink or reach out more. Reaching out is the only way the universe grows, we become more.

:- Doug.