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When you are doing your work, what is the work hidden beyond the surface? What is the more your heart is on? For whom and why?

:- Doug.

Prayers for another
Can be an absorbing
of them

:- Doug.

Poetry is a way
of not facing
in order to face

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1658

Lone leaf on bare branch,
blown: life goes around and through:
fly away; and I

Please pass it on.

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Friend, there is much here. Perhaps indeed this is another key thought—much. Much and more. The idea of packing much into a short space stretches us. It helps us perceive, touch, be touched. This may be why my writing has lots of commas and non-commas: to pack much and more in here. Alone, this process evokes. Much and more. The world is. Embodied pattern and process. Much and more. What we perceive is much. More than we speak. Yet there is more out there we have yet to perceive. Much and more.

:- Doug.

What does it mean to be an elder?

:- Doug.

You are embodied—call this structure
You do things—process
Within relationships and conversations—pattern

:- Doug.

We have qualities,
possibilities, unknowns:
what a cake to bake!

:- Doug.

This first snow like all
first snows, returning, sticking
enspirited me

:- Doug.

Friend, into your storm.

:- Doug.

When someone is ill in hospital, family gathers. Do we feel there is healing in bringing close all these centers, loci?

:- Doug.

We cannot mathematically calculate a life’s meaning; we can map it. Perhaps when we have plotted the points we will discover a stream running through, or a spiral. Or a constellation.

:- Doug.