Vicery-versery
Vicery-versery
Story changes us
:- Doug.
Vicery-versery
Story changes us
:- Doug.
Intimacy all around
Intimacy with all there is
:- Doug.
It’s not about magic—snap your fingers and it appears—but meeting who’s here.
:- Doug.
The Way
Out, ever out,
All directions
:- Doug.
What is your mystical essence?
:- Doug.
Inside the classrooms she is held
Her life held back, her dancing soul
I’m going to take that woman
A long, long way from here
Take her to Birmingham
And put her in my store
Her and her mannequins
A long, long way from here
[pianissimo, six tenors a cappella, chillingly:]
Her mannequins
:- Doug.
How to die? How to respond to dementia, Friend?
:- Doug.
Why fight climate change? Could we work with it?
:- Doug.
There are at least these places we can see the really real: spirit, elusive, consensus.
:- Doug.
I am not had by all thoughts at once. Some thinking is sequential.
:- Doug.
Friend, into your flowing day, accepting your waftings.
:- Doug.
What use are grandchildren? What use are you for the grandchildren?
:- Doug.
If you ever had a mystical experience you know words fail to convey the really real, yet for the grandchildren convey you must.
:- Doug.
Ideas, spirit less so, can only be touched by speech, pushed they might push back. Try to pick up a pound of jelly: you stain your hand and leave much behind: you remember the event.
:- Doug.
Lie down in the forest. Get your heart and neurons closer to the roots and life in the ground.
:- Doug.
We need to let every part of us into the room. Things are going to speak to us all at once—because that is life’s way.
:- Doug.
Have people to help in many ways today. This might be an Open Forum moment, in Arny Mindell terms. The umbrella issue is much to do to help people in many ways. The issues that tug on one another are Medicaid, Powers of Attorney, conflict, loss of power, hopelessness, getting to heard, others. I can help by being present to the flow of nature, where things want to be, being aware of dreams—the things often unnoticed or shrugged away. Seeing possible ways together. Whoommmsh!
:- Doug.
Eldering is a course in generativity with an emphasis on spirit.
:- Doug.
The trees’ roots are beneath you, conversing with you.
:- Doug.
Monasteries arise.
:- Doug.
Amazing things sometimes
:- Doug.
Within this context, change our awareness; this changes the world.
:- Doug.
Eldering makes its holder light enough to rise above.
:- Doug.