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Our stories our poetry
are to puncture the skin
of consciousness

:- Doug.

Guilt is an easy sale. We so readily disappoint ourselves.

:- Doug.

How might we have our stories, our poems, actually mourn? Or dance? Maybe ask Meredith Willson or Edgar Allan Poe. An actually mourning poem would without words keen in the throat that hears. Keening exceeds the one, enters the realm of the between. The between is the place of traverse, of converse.

:- Doug.

Significance walks at a remove from function. They hold hands.

:- Doug.

Mystery will speak to mystery, to darkness, to whispers.

:- Doug.

What’s relevant now from 1720?

:- Doug.

In meditation, you are studying your mind, with hints that your mind might not be you.

:- Doug.

What is the time cycle
that includes the ancestor
and us with the descendant generations?
How far longer is a moment of mystery
beyond a question?

:- Doug.

An elder is one you know
An ancestor is beyond naming

:- Doug.

What did the ancestors say for us?

:- Doug.

Meditating across centuries
What’s the value in going back?

:- Doug.

Think, slow, human walking speed, across generations.

:- Doug.

Ancestors serve.

:- Doug.

We think through our bodies as well as through our nervous system and brain.

:- Doug.

I dwell in the ancestors
Ancestors dwell in me
Generations in me
I in them
We converse

:- Doug.

Overload the senses, not by pouring upon them but by calling forth from them, not to take them out but to find what they may contain and produce, and then over again.

:- Doug.

Many say we are in unprecedented times. Rather, these are precedential times.

:- Doug.

Love the chair in which you’re seated. Enough to get out of it.

:- Doug.

Distrust certainty. Certainly in yourself.

:- Doug.

How does one live well with dementia?

:- Doug.

What message is missing for the person living with dementia?

:- Doug.

I happen to know you are writing a novel, and preparing a blog. What do you think might be your why? What might be your who? What gift do you want to give to humanity?

:- Doug.

My task is to help you find your bigger voice.

:- Doug.