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What are the cycles and rhythms you find in humanity?

:- Doug.

Let’s approach the coming eleventh generation elders with reverence, with a respect for what they got right and what they got wrong for the qwoan.

:- Doug.

What did your great grand parents get wrong? Probably you can think of nothing. It is hubris to think people will blame you for what they are facing. Unless. . . .

:- Doug.

Can better mean reverence?

:- Doug.

This coursing runs
from here to then
and back and back again

:- Doug.

To teach and learn without possibility: the role of all and each of us.

:- Doug.

This move, to deny to this quality a name, makes it both more unreachable and more at hand. Like a gentle rain shower, you recognize it, enjoy it, benefit from it, but cannot hold it in your hands. Now that we’ve unnamed it, how might we better put it in practice? Feed, free, meet, and engage it?

:- Doug.

Today’s insights are mainly scribblings from within my muddle. Thoughts that led to places to stop, perhaps to ponder. And my mind jumps on from there. Will I go back? Maybe I need to make it a practice to go back.

:- Doug.

I am sort of back in the muddle. That is good: so I tell myself. It shows I am growing.

:- Doug.

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.

This is about life-qwoan.

:- Doug.

This human way is organic, an on-rolling process, and it emerges.

:- Doug.

Ageless way

:- Doug.

Conversation is a ladder.

:- Doug.

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.

Tell me about how you experienced your grandparents during your growing up years.

:- Doug.

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.

Rock solid the foundations I have built foolishly putting aside the strength and reach of dreams

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 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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If you’re not daily surprising yourself or getting muddled you’ve chopped off your growing tendrils.

:- Doug.

Today, what’s beyond the border between what you know and your curiosity?

:- Doug.

Gathering minds
we blast off
with power, reason, practicality
a single mind might burst
past the edge of the known

:- Doug.

Someone is coming whom you need to meet.

:- Doug.