Than a newborn
God is stronger than a mountain
Weaker than a newborn
With us every now
:- Doug.
What if God wanted us to dream beyond the edges of God?
:- Doug.
Archive for January, 2018
Organic metaphors
We would be well served to come up with more metaphors of an organic nature. In TV weather segments, in this area of the country, we hear a lot of the lake effect “machine” that gets “cranking up.” What natural living thing or process might be a good metaphor that could remind us that we are part of a natural world that has good at its center?
:- Doug.
Agility of elders
Begins to dawn
flexibility in children
calls for agility of elders’ hearts
:- Doug.
Destruction service
War machinery takes raw materials and directly puts them in service of destruction.
:- Doug.
Power-Affiliation
There is a double helix in our cultural ways of seeing: one helix is domination-violence-power over based; the other partnership-linking-affiliation based. Each by turns leads and restrains the other.
:- Doug.
Wormholes
What if we see black holes and even dark matter and dark energy not as things nor places, but occurrences, like an eddy in a stream or a whirlpool in the air? These could be our wormholes. We could be.
:- Doug.
Mining medical crises
We can be mining medical and other crises for their meaning, making memories with the people we meet.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1754–Or we kill all of us
Footprints in the Windsm # 1754
About the divisions the country is feeling: It is natural there be differences of opinion. We need to recall that there are many more of us now, each with strongly held opinions and even ideologies. Every community of people needs two things: stability and growth. These are opposing needs. If we grow, then things do not stay the same. If things do not stay the same, we are not the same as we were, we risk disappearing. On the other hand, if we do not grow, we fall apart through attrition or lack of fresh blood. So we need both, we need to include both. Beyond weighing one against the other, beyond balancing one with the other, including and honoring each. It is normal, it is healthy, it is necessary.
Here is the thing about those two: we must keep the two conversing. We must keep conversing. It is the only thing that works. Or we kill all of us.
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Pratfalls
William Stafford wrote that violence is a failure of imagination. So let’s create a torrent of imagination. Humor. Pratfalls. Jokes on social media. Giant signs projected on public buildings from drones. There are ways to bring rogue regimes into humanity.
:- Doug.
This between time
What does your presence convey in this between time? The twinkle in your eye, the way you hold yourself, your wordless attitude of heart?
:- Doug.
Death and agony?
Do you pray for the death and agony of our grandchildren? Of course not—you pray for a higher, brighter future.
:- Doug.
Already are
My message is that you have a work to do, a person to be, and a purpose you already are, for the grandchildren.
:- Doug.
Pray the vast
Pray for everybody. Pray the vast openness upon each person near and far. Pray the embrace of the sharing quality of the holy all there is upon each, and upon yourself. Anointed are we all. And so possible.
:- Doug.
Dangerous and essential
Actualizing, rather than holding back, lifting up rather than pressing down. This is the joyful task of the grands. It is a political, economic, and biologic task. At once dangerous and essential.
:- Doug.
Live in either
Mostly we live in either
—fear or love—
our being contracting or expanding
mostly we don’t know
—we can choose—
:- Doug.
