From my tree stand
From my tree stand
I photograph
what goes on just below
how you—we—enculturated
enculturating
treat those a few years
ahead of us in line
:- Doug.
Archive for March, 2015
Elderly is a dismissal;
Elderly is a dismissal;
Elder is a term of respect, reverence, veneration
:- Doug.
as we peer out to the cosmos
as we peer out to the cosmos
and down to the microscopic
we find ourselves in the middle
but were we much higher or lower
would only the lens have moved?
:- Doug.
Like the eagle
Like the eagle high above circling
Floating on the thermals of life
We are: we have the wings to use
:- Doug.
A diff’rent I there is
In speaking there is an I
Ego it is and filled with air
A diff’rent I there is, exposed and
Revealing, naked to all the world
Our human thread this one reweaves
:- Doug.
anger and what we expected
There’s a disconnect between
What we expected and what happens
That’s where the anger works us
:- Doug.
to see inside a person
You can see
inside a person
by the questions
He or she asks
—and does not ask
:- Doug.
If we pour this water
If we pour this water
on this snow
will it melt the snow
or be frozen by it?
Both in turn
For as water it is warmer
then it cools and freezes
till in spring
both melt, become one
and flow out of sight
:- Doug.
Opening vulnerably surprised!
Opening vulnerably
To the world I am
Surprised that it also to me!
:- Doug.
Do no harm
How our way of thinking, seeing everything in numbers and statistics and Dollars, fearing face to face, forcing people to have so many patients they cannot find out who they are, is causing suffering and wrong deaths! We can meet each other. It happens in an instant but it takes a commitment to the time it takes. Humans deserve our humanity. Death is not the enemy. Do no harm.
:- Doug.
Do not take from me a gentle death
Do not take from me a gentle death, a fighting death, whatever death is mine. This is a human rights issue, a human issue.
:- Doug.
What life are we doing everything to keep going?
What life are we doing everything to keep going? The tubes and technology and drug-induced grogginess, interacting with new strangers every few hours? Or the most profound days of our lives? What can we do to make the latter?
:- Doug.
