Try. Enlist.
We won’t know the outcome. All we can do is try. And enlist.
:- Doug.
Melody tells the facts but deepest bass tells the pulse.
:- Doug.
Archive for July, 2019
Money is about fear
Money is about greed, that is to say, fear. Fear of death: death of body, death of life’s dreams, death of blue skies and gentle breezes.
:- Doug.
Thinking is always changing
This explains why my thinking is always changing, sometimes growing, sometimes spiraling back around: necessity. Change is the fundamental reality. I shall respond. No choice. A world of choices in how to respond.
:- Doug.
True to my bones
The truth I seek is beyond proof of facts: it reaches what is true to our own being. It is largely incapable of being stated. The phrase, true to my bones, starts to capture it. Essence is too broad. Reaching in and twisting my guts is closer. It tells me, naked to the world.
If we get to this kind of truth, it deals with the changing: of my world, of my life, of my truth. It fights this change, paddles with the stream, falls in and is overwhelmed by this stream. What is me, and what is this truth then? That is the question, is it not?
Somehow, I am expected to respond. Rightly. For the sake of others and even for the sake of the species and all there is.
:- Doug.
Where is the thread?
One live question: if life is change, then wherein is our hope? What is the thread? Life itself? Beauty? Goodness. Capital T Truth?
:- Doug.
Touch of the silver thread
Spiritual can be receiving the touch of the living silver thread among us.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1883–Do the future now
Footprints in the Windsm # 1883
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Condemned to repeat Santayana
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana. Today we barely know Chateaubriand, Voltaire, the Maginot Line, to say nothing of Jackson, or even Washington. What do we know of our grandparents? What do your grandchildren know of you? Can you help your great grandchildren to the 11th generation with your story?
:- Doug.
Generations away?
What’s your meaningful way to connect with the generations generations away?
:- Doug.
Butterfly in the rainforest
We are that butterfly in the rainforest. We cannot know how our flapping will change our species. But we can choose. We can guess on purpose. We can try with heart.
Intention or despair: our choice. Choose life.
:- Doug.
Tell fresh and new
Tell the generations something true—that will nearly always be fresh and new.
:- Doug.
