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Maybe you don’t need a reason
A why to write poetry
Poetry may be why enough

:- Doug.

Poetry is curiosity working on you.

:- Doug.

Curiosity is our pen

:- Doug.

What fascinates
about your self and friends
and their worlds in covid time?

:- Doug.

Be fascinated by the person’s actions; run away from binary thinking to shades and tints and hues.

:- Doug.

How can covid times help us create, invent, and play with our friends?

:- Doug.

All-hearing all-seeing drone up in the sky
Re-examine events yes but also the poet
For the wizened bird here’s poetry’s role

:- Doug.

What are the “So thats” of writing poetry?

:- Doug.

My purpose is to ask us to think bigger, and that requires we use our imaginations—together. Together here is a scary word.

:- Doug.

It’s not that this is wrong
It’s that we need the sparks

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1978

Like the breezes affecting a hot air balloon are we in covid-time. We know which way the wind is blowing at ground level and higher; we know the afternoon thermals can lift us if we look for them; we can loosely control altitude (attitude); and we can see what we can see, whether it is what we wanted to see or not.

A lovely metaphor, but what’s it mean? How do we look into the future? To start: from here. What trends do we see, how are the people around us reacting to covid? What are they doing in response? Covid, like all life is likely to be a ratchet: no going back. For instance, we have learned some things about distance working, and will not forget those. Can’t keep us down on the farm. We have learned some things about caring for one another, seeing “their” world a bit clearer, and so “ours.” We have seen some things about our denial, our anger, our unwillingness to work through cabin fever. How will these affect what we do in the after covid times?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1977

In COVID-19 time we think we are not in real living, not in the real world. We walk through our days as though on hold. Waiting to live like we did before. Wasting nows. Wasting life.

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Poetry is a state of mind
Seeing

:- Doug.

When you talk with your customers/referrers/patients/friends, what vulnerabilities do they exhibit? What are you doing to address them?

:- Doug.

“Gram, what did you do in the COVID-19 war?”

:- Doug.

In what ways do you feel vulnerable now? To what extent vulnerable, say on a 1-10 scale?

:- Doug.

What is your work in the world? What is a bigger view of that? Bigger still?

:- Doug.

What happens after a paradigm shift? What happens after the white water? What happens after the moments of sheer terror and before the stretches of utter boredom?

:- Doug.

Elders can get busy seeing the directions. For humanity. For clients. Have we ever seen a friend lost, and we saw how the foundering was playing out? Did we work out a way for us to say a word? What word could we?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1976

I fell into a deep book.

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How do people respond to paradigm shifts? After the shifts? What are the stages of the shifts?

:- Doug.

Honor your inklings; spend time nurturing them; help them fully express themselves.

:- Doug.

Will we use the opportunity
of this 2020
to see more clearly?

:- Doug.