Monthly Archives: October 2020
Echoes of kinship
Ancestors call forth echoes of inheritance and kinship. Mutuality in these words. Sustenance. :- Doug.
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Carry the tune?
We are touched by the melody, but can we carry the tune to others? :- Doug.
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re-telling
Story telling is not simply re-telling. It is wrestling with your life’s meaning. :- Doug.
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Thorns and underbrush
Unless you are offering yourself in the course, offering as a sacrifice, a sacred slaying, the course is not worth their time, nor yours, nor divinity’s. Go beyond what you know. Push through the thorns and underbrush. Risk what you … Continue reading
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Roadmap for the day
The hero’s and heroine’s journey is not a compact outline for a story. It is a roadmap for the story teller’s day. :- Doug.
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Paddle over the waterfall
Stories that change the world, myths, and lives of great people have movement in common, the lead character comes out changed at the end. There is a crisis. They grow up. They also lead. They find a new idiosyncratic way. … Continue reading
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To repackage stories
To repackage stories, say Bible stories, to explain or analyze, is to stay at arm’s length. You wear them as a coat to ward off wet and cold, to keep your own warmth and breath to yourself. Instead, if you … Continue reading
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Out of covid in small groups
A vision: we climb out of covid in small groups. We tend and befriend, hug and touch these. Larger scales lose their power. We help those in other groups, at a kind distance, with an easy heart, smiling. We are … Continue reading
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Journey is your own risk
Your journey is not the hero’s or heroine’s journey. This journey is your own risk. :- Doug.
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Crisis is life
The writer must go over the cliff’s edge, must risk his or her pulsing sacred soul. There is the old story which both applies and no longer applies to you—you must go beyond, make your own, lead the species to … Continue reading
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to a new place
As a reader I want you, writer, to take me or your character, ideally both of us, to a new place, to a felt change of consciousness, a new life. :- Doug.
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fingers across the generations
The field of the between is visceral level. Over centuries the actual words matter less than the senses evoked, senses of muscle, bone, grasp, weight, mass, moving. It is here we have a chance to touch fingers across the generations, … Continue reading
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to puncture the skin
Our stories our poetry are to puncture the skin of consciousness :- Doug.
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Our stories actually mourn?
How might we have our stories, our poems, actually mourn? Or dance? Maybe ask Meredith Willson or Edgar Allan Poe. An actually mourning poem would without words keen in the throat that hears. Keening exceeds the one, enters the realm … Continue reading
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Time cycle of mystery?
What is the time cycle that includes the ancestor and us with the descendant generations? How far longer is a moment of mystery beyond a question? :- Doug.
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Beyond naming
An elder is one you know An ancestor is beyond naming :- Doug.
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