but: you must go through
Thinking can open
doors in you
to soul deeps
skylights in you
to spirit flights
but: you must go through
:- Doug.
Archive for September, 2022
Hidden though known
Treasure
gestures—
facial expressions—
body language—
hidden though known
:- Doug.
The voice God uses:
It might be good to speak with God in the voice God mostly uses: silence.
:- Doug.
Bouncing-out
Our object in conversation may not be communication, but bouncing-out thinking. New ideas, new paths are expected and desirable even if seldom desired. Not so much transfer as evocation. When you converse you are larger than communicating; sometimes larger-making.
:- Doug.
What have we yet to miss?
How many ways can we converse? More usefully, what are the neighborhoods along the train trip from coast to coast? How might we notice all the shifts? There are perhaps clues in the numberless songs of birds, dolphins, whales, deer, bear, humans; take these to the powers of the subtle, the gross, and the unnumbered emotions; then consider the subjects of all poems ever expressed and ever to be expressed. What have we yet to miss?
:- Doug.
May be the only
We even talk with ourselves
Every day all day long
We call it thinking
Really it is talking
Thinking together may be the only thinking
:- Doug.
Who determines?
Is there such a thing as self-determination, or do we actually tend to determine one another?
:- Doug.
More doings and movings, friends
Even we, as white 21st century Americans, have been colonized. We cannot easily think in terms of loving, creating, caring, acting with humility with others. We fight diseases, we win lovers, we manage people when we could be gentle with our bodies, allow ourselves to be fully here with another, and meet one another as persons, all as we are. We need to re-assimilate our native creative, language of life. More doings and movings my friends, fewer things and objects out there. Softly live. With. Trickstering.
:- Doug.
I do not write
I do not write
to convince you
of anything
only to evoke
from you
your stories
your new thinking
:- Doug.
You do not bring to heel
The world one whole
I do not take in my hand
you do not bring to heel
:- Doug.
How can anyone ever own land?
How can anyone ever own land? It was here before, will be here after, you. You can walk across it, put up a dwelling for a spell. It will ever resist being owned. The land cannot be got from mere money or muscle.
:- Doug.
Indigenous like you and me
Indigenous describes people like you and me who long ago called this their home.
:- Doug.
Stand outside ourselves
In our word ecstasy we can hear echoes from a language no longer spoken: we stand (sta) outside (ex) ourselves. In our conversation, when well entered, we do stand outside ourselves.
:- Doug.
We will not often find
Conversing all the way to finding
Our face
Our heart
We will not often find. When we do, what we find will shake us: worthy is our home-place.
:- Doug.
