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We live in an imaginary world. The imaginary world I have in mind is a milieu centered in verbs and modifiers: here we each imagine being and doing and creating fecund imagine-ing, being, doing, creating, fecund. . . .

:- Doug.

Do I treat another’s blah—and even my own blah-ness—as an opportunity for growth?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2356

Caught my eye
that light last night—
            across the way a firefly
            answered the silent call—
above my uncut grass
a dozen more softly faded—
            we once were used to this

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What are the alternatives to me?

:- Doug.

The dog-kick principle keeps us from going directly to a friend’s soul. Each wind has a route of its own. Each spirit chooses what it chooses.

:- Doug.

What is at your core? Is it anger, joy, boredom, blah? I don’t want to meet blah—but must I anyway?

:- Doug.

Where words come from turns out to be the home they seek.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2355

People are kind. Look for it.

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You speak of quality of life: For you, what is quality of conversation? What is the minimum you will accept? What is the maximum you could expect?

:- Doug.

For what are you living? For what are you conversing?

:- Doug.

We ask people dying, What is a good day? For what do you live? So you who do not expect to die this hour, How would you live a good conversation?

:- Doug.

One cannot fix dying
nor conversation

:- Doug.

What does a good conversation and meeting look like?

:- Doug.

Don’t make your writing more beautiful that it needs to be.

:- Doug.

To meet is a gift, a gift you receive from one another. You can intend to give it, but you cannot direct its travel nor its arrival. You can thank your friend.

But once you have received this gift, you have an opportunity and possibly a responsibility: you can receive that breaking open willingly, giving-ly; you can open to meet again.

:- Doug.

What does one do after meeting?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2354

I want my words to arrive
to find a home
in your
center
core
the place where the snake curls
the one who is all embrace
where the tea meets the waters
two beings teeming each its own ways
perfumes acids flavors
loud rushing splashing
each infusing the other
with its kind of life
is the drink invigorating
or poison?
and I—this animal
no choice: life decrees I drink this brew

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I love to feel where intricacy comes from.

:- Doug.

Be intricate with one another.

:- Doug.

How did it all begin?

:- Doug.

We don’t know what kind is.

:- Doug.

We owe each other humanity. We owe one another kindness. We are one another’s kind: this.

:- Doug.

My office at the moment is a clutter-fest.

:- Doug.