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We sense what is in our heads, seldom what is out there. We reconstruct the scene, and live that out. So we should and have no other choice. Maybe there is no organization out there. No matter: sharing the organization we imagine, we construct, engender, and nourish our world, our wholeness.

:- Doug.

“Rely on increasingly sublime energies”
Writes Teilhard and true:
The more we grow the more we
Run up to and cross the threshold
Energized by our unity

:- Doug.

Becomes united into one
This world when little things are done:
Leave behind material,
Immediate, and ego-centered,
Die! Transform your neighborhood

:- Doug.

Consciousness
is being
we are to the extent aware

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1433

I can’t have it clear
Cannot possibly get clear
Without doing, testing, changing
Before clarity comes
Meeting

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How the world is organized!
Or is it our brain
Wishes it so?

:- Doug.

Did Emily write knowing of
This other poet’s poem?
Presupposes the poets
Were wholly separate particles
So too the reader asking
Who first among inventors invented
Same thing? can be irrelevant
All in the commons shared

:- Doug.

Bladder says Get up
Let me sleep!
After, back in bed
Sphincter joins in, barking
Roll to stomach, maybe this
Hand falls asleep but not I
Words float up of their own accord
Remind me of the day’s agenda
Responsibility and enjoyment
Tell me things I must remember
Against sleep-in day: conspiracy!

:- Doug.

The question is not what technology we have rather how we elect to use it. Over the millennia we have touched by grunts then words then writing then printing then telephones then email then texting now more will come. At each step I imagine parents decried the lack of “real” contact. Both parents and the new generation were right: it is a waste to pour out words without intent to share souls; each technology transcends and includes the former, increasing the channels by which with one another to be real. Both fall short: it takes courage to open heart and mind and will.

:- Doug.

Wait a beat. Pause. Silence.

:- Doug.

To open space is to invite.

:- Doug.

I explore after our
possibilities
reconnoitering
contributing

:- Doug.

Each a—
partial center
particular overlook
particular actualizing
—of the whole
intimately to you
I speak to the world

:- Doug.

A conversation is a forest
(or is it either way ’round?)
we can be at home right here
deeper into the wood
darkness beckons
stop sometimes
take in
this silence of a thousand voices
beneath that

:- Doug.

Is silence the drill of conversation?

:- Doug.

In the open space moment
we believe
together makes possible
we can know enough
we might contribute to humankind
we

:- Doug.

In the inviting and the freeing and the dancing….

:- Doug.

How do they all catch the sun?
Tree puts forth lots of leaves
Each turns its face to the sun
Spaces between
And wind

:- Doug.

Teacher, the work’s not done
in front of you

:- Doug.

Most moments short
First we see
Then we see again

:- Doug.

“Nature gave up on that tooth”
the dentist told me when I was 30
“You’re telling me I’m getting old”
I said and when I was 31
I had a different dentist

:- Doug.

By burr on fur
By wind
By digestive processes
Of mind
The seed travels

:- Doug.

First the facts presented
Second the assimilation
Third the synthesis
Fourth we take it to the community
Second we assimilate again

:- Doug.