Monthly Archives: December 2018

Something in cookie baking

What is cookie baking about? Making up a story? Love is too facile an answer. There is something in the ordinary. :- Doug.

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Powers distinguishable from adult

If we are a species distinguishable from adult, we must have powers distinguishable, not built of strength nor speed, but probably of profundity and meaning and heart for complexity and contradiction. :- Doug.

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Map a power

Map a major part A power beyond adult —story? —far-sight? —mist-ifying? —unknowing? :- Doug.

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inventing a power

We in age have power beyond adult which we must invent and use for good :- Doug.

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A special kind of old

I’m old I’m a special kind of old :- Doug.

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kick in the rump

Here’s the thing— This is and will be enough and The world needs our kick in the rump and We must find a way to live out fully these both at once :- Doug.

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Your contribution of meaning?

What now is your contribution of meaning for those to come? :- Doug.

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Can we mend and heal?

We’re a new generation, but that’s not the significant thing. We have health and energy and freedom—and that’s not either. What’s deepest lies in our new opportunities and responsibilities. There is a larger picture. We are a part and can … Continue reading

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this stage virtually unknown

We don’t have a word for it because this stage of life is virtually unknown to us. :- Doug.

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Notice anything different?

Do you notice anything different in your attitude, in your stance to the world? Is something developing? :- Doug.

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What inhabits your heart

What inhabits your heart has far more power than your timidity supposes :- Doug.

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The meaning of your contribution?

What is the meaning of your contribution now for those to come? :- Doug.

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Out beyond clarity

Out beyond Words Images Clarity Us Love —Meet :- Doug.

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a bell in your bell tower

Quiet friend now meditate be silent that you may hear now from the very darkness sing out a bell in your bell tower that generations may hear :- Doug.

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Your name in thirty years be forgotten

If your name in thirty years be forgotten even then is your life ever fully lost? :- Doug.

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finally bear fruit?

Shouldn’t life finally bear fruit in us? :- Doug.

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far away persons near us

Unknowing going leads to strange roads and far away persons near us :- Doug.

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