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Are you still curious?

:- Doug.

How much clock distortion of our lives occurs because we allow it?

:- Doug.

The clock into
whose face I
look many times a day
stretches wrings
parts of my life

:- Doug.

Words distort
Time distorts
We hear not see not

:- Doug.

Invite people to be inquisitive—of each other.

:- Doug.

At election time we do well to ask ourselves, What makes us Americans? What makes us humans?

:- Doug.

Network is not the best metaphor for how people relate because it shows us a picture of lines, however complex. Humanity is related to itself in highly nonlinear ways: feedback loops, arisings, bubbling, dancing, bumping, fuzziness, inside and beyond time, belonging, boundary-shaping, intentional and not, expectations-filled, conflicts.

:- Doug.

The conversational culture has these hidden aspects: It limits the range of our acceptable actions and even thoughts, while our conversations create it.

:- Doug.

Dual is the role of conversation
This hand continually generates
(Meaning, ideas, pictures)
This hand coordinates
(The ever changing people)

We get culture—a people
We get considered choices
We get value—
Wisdom or
Progress or
Something else

:- Doug.

Kairos is surreptitious time.

:- Doug.

What is time? Time is what we say it is. Nothing more, nothing less. Who is this “we?” Ahh, that is the question—What is important enough for us to measure?

:- Doug.

Overcast skies, humidity in the air: moisture permeates our bodies and lives. Such is the nature of spirit: encompassing, embracing, infusing: igniting or incinerating.

:- Doug.

The time line of old folks, if it exists at all, might just be with a long past tail, an interminable now, and very short future headlights. If we then, as carefamily, are living in a time line where the past is short, the future long, and the now almost non existent, how do we begin to converse with one another? Our boundary lines are not seen and therefore tripped over by each other, our references do not refer, our logic makes no sense.

:- Doug.

To prepare for this conversation is to limit it. It would then not be conversation. Best to go empty.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1595

Centuries long have we
Developed our maize
Built our cabins and cities
Seeded the thunder
To our larger
Let us turn
To our humanity

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Oh, friend, this is such a large world, I cannot see it all. Large out there, larger in the betweens.

:- Doug.

The next step in unfolding will be creatures who to us will seem as gods. Same as we perhaps seem to the other species in our lives. Maybe they will not ignore us as we and the species ignore each other. Maybe it will be us, when we no longer ignore.

:- Doug.

Everything unfolds. Some things slower or faster than others, so invisible. Flowers abound.

:- Doug.

Human language is made of metaphor, of comparison to our nearer world, of this standing for that, because otherwise we cannot understand, we cannot take in, the other. So when we read anything, we need to be alert to metaphors in hiding. This is especially true of things for which language is inherently inadequate.

:- Doug.

There are rhythms of life in say a nursing home. The rhythms are like languages where people cannot understand one another. There is the long flowing beat of the older, the staccato of the staff.

:- Doug.

I am a poet who practices as an elder caring lawyer.

:- Doug.

We are blind and do not—perhaps cannot—see our blindness.

:- Doug.

What are your opportunities in making a Will and testament? To get rid of, to pass along wisdom, to connect generations, to proselytize? What are the profane uses, the sacred?

:- Doug.