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These inquiries with clients do need to be on-going and in-built. What matters to you now? What matters to your other family members? Tell me about a time when you acted together well. What could make this long-term care challenge a good time for you and your family?

How do you grow? How can your family possibly grow through this? What would be some ways you could come together?

:- Doug.

Inexorably reality unfolds
We can participate in the natural flow of healing
Reality wants to change
What needs doing will unfold
Each can rediscover original integrity
My inquiry and your inquiry are interwoven
Truth can be heard when invited, supported, not when confronted
Inquiry needs to be ongoing and in-built
Inquiry and deep reflection are normal to all life—crisis, family, business, and personal

:- Doug.

Bright colors and dull
Little children teach us older ones
To live

:- Doug.

We can be in the world
and of it
when we stir it

:- Doug.

Truth can be imagined.

:- Doug.

In inviting, imagining, engaging
We are

:- Doug.

Change is so slow
Long it is before old generations die out
Longer still our habits
Play with us
Laughter is a sweet way to die

:- Doug.

Goals are artificial
The world rolls on
There are no ends

:- Doug.

My poetry usually intends
All possible meanings
How can there only be one?
Can you think of others
For this?

:- Doug.

Sometimes the poem
cannot be seen
until it is read

:- Doug.

Our world flows
calculating
love

:- Doug.

The world as who:
and all the questions
may become profounder
who are you?
who am I?
who are we?
are we who?

:- Doug.

In inviting, imagining, and engaging are you….

:- Doug.

Each of you streams, pieces breaking off
carried past
quick, try to catch who
each and both might be
too, her gaze creates

:- Doug.

Seeing a new panorama: your conversing partner creates you, as well invents the relating/entity of you both. This is the Barfieldian observation that what is real is neither out there alone, nor in the mind alone, but is a concoction of both—cannot be otherwise. We cannot take in all of the other person, whether what is out there, or what is in there out there. But we can as we go make up ourselves, alone and together.

On top of this we apply the different powers of thinking and conversing: 1. thinking mechanically, 2. reflecting, 3. thinking together, 4. reflecting together, 5. coming together, experiencing some aspect of oneness, 6. doing together, 7. ???

See: together invents. Together gives occasion for newness, a next discontinuous with a past. Together opens way for transcending.

So that: if you want to transcend your past, get together!

:- Doug.

Birds flitting about. Eating are they? Playing? Enjoying the airy ways? What are the names of these birds? I am Adam: having no names from other people, I will choose. Perhaps Joe, Sarah, Frederica?

:- Doug.

In competition, planning, and goals we can see a large measure of ego, disavowal of responsibility, and beneath them, fear.

:- Doug.

Choose competition or choose responsibility.

:- Doug.

Ego-scope turned this way sees
world threatening
the other, welcoming, bending

:- Doug.

Strangeness:
we look at the same
and see different worlds
when small, the soul keeps shriveling
when large, keeps growing
small, focusing on world sees only
something to eat,
something to fear
growing, focusing on world sees
friends, favorable winds,
collaborators, growth
both states look through self upon the same world
one fearing, the other engaging

:- Doug.

It tastes good
It can’t be bad for me
Yes?

:- Doug.

Competition is light and easy and mostly free of responsibility. Relationship is avoided for it is difficult, takes mindful work of head, heart, and hand, and responsibility for a larger universe than oneself alone.

:- Doug.

To pursue competition is to enter into a sphere that continually grows smaller till it vanishes—pop!

:- Doug.