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Monthly Archives: October 2020
Hear what are
people only Hear what they are prepared to Taste :- Doug.
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Stories and poems live
Stories and poems live in metaphor as metaphor :- Doug.
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More true to what you meant
When you use a metaphor in your story or poem, ask, What kind of X is that? Go two or three steps: your metaphor can grow more true to what you meant, more concrete. :- Doug.
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All human activity is to express
All human activity is to express When heard the circle completes Being heard makes a person :- Doug.
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Foggy good
Some fog out there today—that is good for the imaginary. :- Doug.
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The imaginary larger
The imaginary world is larger than the real. That’s what gives it a pull across centuries. :- Doug.
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Their eyes tell you
Tell your story their questions their eyes tell you :- Doug.
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in wholes
This course encourages you to think to dream in wholes, completes :- Doug.
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Soak up the music
Immerse the grandchild in any environs her essence will soak up the music :- Doug.
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Our plash
We are placing ourselves into a larger flow. Our plash has an effect. :- Doug.
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With your mother’s eyes
With your mother’s eyes Are you called to life From out of her womb Her eyes search yours search And you are known With your mother’s eyes You are called forth You gazing back … Continue reading
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Mystery-teller
I am a mystery-teller For you I offer a mystery Ancestors :- Doug.
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Ancestors to one another
What if ancestors were not ahead of you in line (nor behind you in something some call “time”) but were all around you, all about you, sustaining you as you sustain them? You may get your hazel eyes from your … Continue reading
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Do you maintain
What are you doing to maintain— Generations yet to come? Generations gone on ahead? Generations walking alongside you? Beings not at all like you ancestoring you? :- Doug.
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Adversity guarantees
Adversity is the guarantor of ancestry, the contraries that Blake says lead to progress, that McKee calls contradictory, contrary, and negation of the negation. :- Doug.
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lonely strands
You ancestor are the story, the song with snatches of tune and maybe almost no words remembered. This melody makes persons of lonely strands. Of DNA. Of estranged blood. Makes mutuality of these persons. :- Doug.
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No shoulders
An ancestor may not provide shoulders to stand on. Rather, sustenance, nurture, food to be taken in, eaten, digested, turned to strength and direction. A help for choice in dilemma. This is my essence: eat. :- Doug.
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