Is poetry the same as meaning? Poetry reveals meaning, more is a search for meaning, a pathway into the woods. Poetry does not require a fully developed meaning for it to step off. Perhaps this is why Frankl wrote of the Search for Meaning.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1536
Every twig and leaf that falls
In the river changes the river
Morphed by the river
Is the river births a new river
Every person paddling
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What archetypes are at the foundation of my way of seeing/exploring all there is?
:- Doug.
What difference does it make whether X is primary or Y? This simply sets up an opposition, a diversion.
:- Doug.
That’s why we have two of just about everything—so we can see if one is doing as well as the other. That’s why we have billions of us—to see if we are doing as well as we can by each other.
:- Doug.
In the dictionary almost every word has multiple shades of meaning. Speak so that you use many at once.
:- Doug.
A neighborhood playground asks the question: what marks the edge of “home?”
:- Doug.
I choose to go outside to the sunny playground and play with the other kids.
:- Doug.
Be in the process of reminding people of this larger place they like to be. Re-hearting. Re-humanizing.
:- Doug.
Such a pretty day out! It lifts the spirits to know you are part of it!
:- Doug.
Take people for a spin in the awakening/wake-mobile. Share breezes in the face, the open road, the adventures.
:- Doug.
People put stuff on my computer all the time. It is called attachments and email. Even on my own computer I have no absolute control.
:- Doug.
Do you not see that a rising tide lifts all boats? Yes: Do you not see that fencing off your part of our great bowl impoverishes others, and yourself as well?
:- Doug.
Blake’s company of heavenly hosts singing: not glorific: ordinary. When we have too much and refuse to share, we strangle our brothers and sisters, we keep food from our grandchildren. When we share, there is the party of the splinted elbows. When we listen to children with terminal diseases and watch the light in their eyes, we touch our humanity in our humility. One we are.
:- Doug.
These are glimpses I have seen the last few days:
—of poor people and people with much
—of us all in one economic pool
—of children dying with imaginations yet alive
—of us all in one life
—of us all in one meaning
:- Doug.
If over the hill is when we stop contributing, then people are wise to treat us as no longer worthy of notice.
:- Doug.
I am come to invite people to discover meeting, engagement, conversation, poetry, and working.
:- Doug.
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