A philosophical stance
A philosophical stance for the practice of elder caring in our community.
:- Doug.
Archive for January, 2016
Aroused
Aroused seeing what might happen
Intercourse headed for
Engendering good beginnings
Maybe I should say
This is about other kinds of growing
:- Doug.
Making patterns
Making patterns
this is life
in process
forming substance
from conversation
:- Doug.
color here curiosity there
Patterns we detect forming
color here curiosity there
openings openings
:- Doug.
What are the questions people face?
In our community, what are the questions people face? What conversations would be good to have?
:- Doug.
Poetry and heavy lifting
We can target our thinking work around a common question. We can feel the common pull and the help of other strong arms. We can hear the melody our ideas make. We can step back and grasp the larger. Poetry and heavy lifting in the same space. Bridging gaps and obstacles. Making third possibilities.
:- Doug.
Not a problem people cannot make worse
There’s not a problem in the world that people, fighting without hearing one another, cannot make worse.
:- Doug.
Discovered powers of persons
We discover one another
Then I discover myself we’ve added
Discovered powers of persons
:- Doug.
We avoid meeting God
We avoid meeting God
with our many words, songs
we could have been empty, receptive
:- Doug.
hubris in goal-setting
There is a certain hubris in goal-setting: we bet we know what’s best for us, our lives, and what effect we can have on others. So we won’t be deterred. Purpose is softer, leaving room.
:- Doug,
How divinity comes to us
People surprise us in meeting. Meeting surprises us too, especially the wider we open to it. Meeting is how divinity comes to us. Meeting is deific stuff.
:- Doug.
Human curmudgeonly feeling
At our party last night B said “I hate surprises.” I can remember when I said that, really felt that. Last night I kept my silence, pondering. Hating surprises I will put off to human curmudgeonly feeling: This is taking me away from what I wanted! I pondered that surprises are now to me something good: they betoken creativity and emergence, forms of divinity arising. Destiny arising. A detour that is the main road. Or could be the main road. An invitation.
:- Doug.
and sometimes mouth
There is no how to meeting, there is only meeting, truly meeting, letting down one’s shields, picking up the hem of one’s courage, opening self and sometimes mouth.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1569–Trying to make it ordinary
Footprints in the Windsm # 1569
Why I have not been getting the message across: I have been trying to make it ordinary, make it make sense, make it fit within the everyday. Although it is everyday, and necessary to life, it is not the essential element, not ordinary. Yet that is what we all want: a non ordinary existence, a non ordinary standing forth.
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