The leap too much
We can grow a space within which conversation can emerge. Otherwise, the chasm is too large for our arms, the leap too much for our hearts.
:- Doug.
Archive for October 9th, 2021
Rules for human life
What are the rules by which human life is formed? For example: each person has relationships; each person seeks peace among relationships; each person helps others get what they need and want like food, sleep, shelter, conversation, sex, laughter.
:- Doug.
About your grandparents
Tell me about how you experienced your grandparents during your growing up years.
:- Doug.
Your daily generating
Generations come from generating not making; we are daily generating the ones who come behind us. Do you give thought, then, to your generating. Their force takes over and replaces yours.
:- Doug.
Strength and reach of dreams
Rock solid the foundations I have built foolishly putting aside the strength and reach of dreams
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2079–There is a thing
Footprints in the Windsm # 2079
There is a thing, we cannot live, unless we do.
This thing is fearsome. We do not want to do it. We must. We cannot.
This thing has no name. But we know it. Most frightening: it knows us. To the sinew and gristle and pulse. To the thoughts we do not admit. To ourselves.
Here is where we live. Here is where life erupts. Irrupts. Here is where the ancients past and future meet us. Here is where we touch our duty. Our duty to human. To live. To all there is.
There is a thing, we cannot live, unless we do.
How then shall we do this thing?
We look at, hear, smell, taste, feel the world we humans have created and ask what we did. We stay alert to what it says about human. And life. And long ranges. We touch what we can of this unnameable in the generations forward and afterward. We ever do what we most fear to do, what sounds our deepest sadness, what is most pleasing, what is most wonderful. We use these tools to drill ever further into the aquifer full and rich.
Please pass it on.
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Surprising tendrils
If you’re not daily surprising yourself or getting muddled you’ve chopped off your growing tendrils.
:- Doug.
