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What are the pure powers of the old ones? How might we turn our eyes to see?

:- Doug.

What are the powers of this age and of our age?

:- Doug.

What do elders have that can heal the world? What are their powers you have noticed?

:- Doug.

This is called The Course:
It is about our age

:- Doug.

Maybe those with failing words
are traveling ever deeper
into realms where words do not avail

:- Doug.

Feed me
with the chance
that I
an undefended elder
could be

:- Doug.

Our songs meander
on curving paths
discovering perchance building

:- Doug.

only without words
do our voices carry
all they can say

:- Doug.

Need no proof: try and see.

:- Doug.

We don’t need proof of powers, only to try them and see.

:- Doug.

So what might be the advantages, the powers of being ephemeral? We don’t care: we can speak without unnecessary filters. We cannot be harmed.

The advantages of being ethereal are similar. We are permeable and impermeable at once. Stab us, and your dagger goes right through, you fall, we stand. We also are closer to eternal, holy, whole things.

The powers of being evanescent? Seeing larger, longer. Seeing life and death: complete cycles.

Elder powers are in giving humanity back to humanity.

:- Doug.

Ephemeral ethereal evanescent elder!

:- Doug.

though I did not sweat
this meeting was wrestling
beyond pinning gathering

:- Doug.

Shadows on the wall
light plays right to left
left to right
I am taken up
taken up
woven between among
holy mended complete

:- Doug.

Poetry and law
exchange
significance

:- Doug.

Seek essence
          and source
                    of being
                              human

:- Doug.

Holy the betweens
Apart
A part

:- Doug.

Think on the world
in an extraordinary way

:- Doug.

What is your evocation?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1840

People easily derail me. I need to find a way to stay in the deeper now. To start to spiral to the deeper and higher, ignoring the track detours, but still acknowledging them and ask their help going deeper and higher.

This is a skill I have not yet developed, and one I want to try. This is the band members making music using each other’s instruments. The music went some unexpectedly deep places.

So the band members had to get over feeling uncomfortable. They had to accept their not knowing. They had to keep going forward.

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What does it mean “Sometimes I cannot tell the difference between living and staring out the window?” What is the value of that for the generations?

:- Doug.

If a butterfly flapping changes the weather, might your meaning-full breath advance generations?

:- Doug.

Do you outlast a bowl of roses?

:- Doug.