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Of soul-mates
you and I sadly partial
happily in the gaps
others fit
seeds grow

:- Doug.

Impermanence
Heart of beauty

:- Doug.

Teach yourself to notice things
you passed by before

:- Doug.

This is exploratory poetics.

:- Doug.

Explore
Together with a far grandchild
How to human

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2064

I digress. But if we are on this “gress” together and happy and pleased with one another, who’s to say it is not instead the best “gress?”

Please pass it on.

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Life is profusion and experiment and staidness. It is right. Do these—all!—and live. Live for life! A new poem each day. Hear your Muses, listen to your Sirens.

:- Doug.

This night-time’s harvest
strawberries! beans, corn, squash
of poems!

:- Doug.

This life a stream
the course of experiments
pushing us out of bed

:- Doug.

We are presented with
a circus of possibilities

and then we go home
with our spouse
—maybe that’s best

:- Doug.

Seek ignorance and how it can be useful.

:- Doug.

The morning after conversation: we only learn from a conversation after a sleep a reflection and then a search. Links and gaps sleep and distraction. A spark needs a gap. And two other things.

:- Doug.

After your dialogue, do some reflective writing.

:- Doug.

“Each person has not one age but many.” (Theodore Zeldin) So what ages are you?

:- Doug.

And mirrors! To reverse the image and see more, hear more, hold more in one’s hand!

:- Doug.

Not just the connections we make with others grows us, but the gaps as well. Alice’s rabbit hole was far from empty! Interactions include non-acting.

:- Doug.

The Muse is whispering so we must make the effort not just to listen but to hear.

:- Doug.

We can be muses to each other—across generations.

:- Doug.

After a meeting ends: more reflection makes for more significance.

:- Doug.

When did you stop having new thoughts?

:- Doug.

How alive are you?

:- Doug.

Play each other’s instrument.

:- Doug.

Provoke incite
watchwords
of true grandparents

:- Doug.