Dougsylvania
Our place can be known henceforth as Dougsylvania, Doug’s Woods.
:- Doug.
Our place can be known henceforth as Dougsylvania, Doug’s Woods.
:- Doug.
Shaping us shaped by us
Spirit visits as if
—Our thinking: from stored repeated thoughts
To working at thinking
To reverie
To living notions on the wing out of reach
—Weights: from heaviest conscience
To bouncing step
—Colors: from sharpness of red
To fingers outstretched in dark diaphanous swirling violet
—Winds: from fiercest storms
To light whisper of a lover on my cheek
Spirit we have never known you yet!
:- Doug.
There is no distinct message other than perhaps to be present to life, to demonstrate that to the grandchildren, to challenge them to be present and all of us to bend the arc.
:- Doug.
The 300 years gets us out of immediacy, stretches our thinking, makes it useful, and meaningful.
:- Doug.
Perhaps the very act of being present to our own lives is what will be most needful and most useful to those alive in 300 years.
:- Doug.