How we fight
What shakes the ground comes back to what is common between us. How we are the same, how we fight with one another. Fights are a form of with.
:- Doug.
Archive for August, 2023
to deny reality
Our lives are a great mix. Bodies, emotions, nobility, evil, senses, nonsenses. People different from us: more different and even more different. To sort it out is to deny reality.
:- Doug.
irreconcilable good?
So the question to ponder is what irreconcilable good stands on the other side of what I have written?
:- Doug.
Field effects intertwine?
Field effects, patterns, infrasound or infrasonics, gathering, belonging, waves, spectrum, continuum, spirit, dance: how does it all intertwine?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2261–a curious set of words
Footprints in the Windsm # 2261
Never mind—a curious phrase
does it direct you to lose your mind
or question if you ever had one?
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The other’s field
What if there were a field effect in conversation? If we are in this field together we sense something more of (from) one another. This something may be what we at times label “vibes” or even “spirit.” It may take energy and effort—to attend, to tune in to—one another’s field.
:- Doug.
patterns dancing across
We meet our world in patterns dancing across
we touch its hands, shoulders
sense its hips, feet, movements, spin, slide
patterns always there
ever new
:- Doug.
what shakes the ground
Why conversation? To allow us to talk about what really matters—what shakes the ground, not merely gives solid footing.
:- Doug.
Tasting the infrasonic
Let us posit: There is something in the nature of the infrasonic to conversation: beneath the words and even the vocalizations. Now how would we test this hypothesis?
:- Doug.
What’s spiritual in conversation?
A clue to what’s spiritual in conversation is that conversation often serves to bring us together. It is perhaps the reason we have in the back of our minds to converse. The essence of spiritual is similar: it draws us to belonging. Gathering, belonging in conversation then may suggest the presence of spirit. In some degree. This pulse, felt, could point to the wavelength, frequency, or energy from this spectrum.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2260–Unlensed eyes
Footprints in the Windsm # 2260
I look out the window with my unlensed eyes. Up there, the maple buds, not yet burst, all deep red-orange-brown, are waving lazy fingers in front of each other, making patterns of caresses. Now the light slides in and the brilliance of that deep red-orange-brown shocks my eyes, I blink. The little white cloud behind lights these buds, and now these, a lover’s close examination. Lower, the green stained white of a pear tree receives the gentle cool sun. The pond is still, waiting for the reflection to arrive. Full sun lingers and I’d have missed it if I had only looked now.
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Footprints in the Windsm # 2259–But we can tickle
Footprints in the Windsm # 2259
We cannot understand one another. But we can tickle something in each other.
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Her eyes the brightest blue, faded
Her eyes, he said, had been the brightest blue. Now, with dementia, they were faded.
:- Doug.
Distinctly spiritual
Something there is distinctly spiritual about conversation. It is of vibrations, but possibly of a different wavelength or frequency from what we usually consider. Its tones and clicks seem to me to be at the lower frequencies. This might serve to explain why listening again gives us a new hearing. Here we have a different frequency of thinking. It may be like the electromagnetic spectrum: radiation that travels and spreads out as it goes. Encompassing light, radio waves, and something more: microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2258–dance and all that
Footprints in the Windsm # 2258
Two things seem apart from my life
one I haven’t figured out how to do
the other is cacophony to my ears
and yet these two fascinate and pull me
moving to the music we dance
making music ones together make jazz
two things somehow a part of my life
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rainbow trout approximation
Everything in life is approximation. The rainbow trout misses the fly. We do not understand what the other is saying. We test out what we think might work.
:- Doug.
evidence of being alive
We talk as evidence of being alive, to better attune us to being alive—approximately. We talk to pay better attention to our lives and to life.
:- Doug.
