Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

Human end to life?

What is a human end of life? Full bore technology, do everything? Let nature take its course? Comfort measures? Each person to her own? :- Doug.

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Saw us open

Disease Divorce Debility Death Fillet us, saw us open Raggedly, display our gizzards Here meet profundity The curious craft of vulnerability :- Doug.

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Your world-projects

What are the world-projects you’d like to tackle? :- Doug.

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That too is a power

Our time left is shorter (Or so we think) And that too is a power :- Doug.

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Fishers of grandchildren

We will teach one another to become fishers of grandchildren, menders of the earth, cultivators of beloved community. :- Doug.

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Measured in lives?

What if instead of measuring the economy in Dollars, we measured in lives? :- Doug.

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Dangerous interface

In front of you is a dangerous interface between the daily and the sacred. Will you work to bring life creating forces to community? :- Doug.

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Saving up some days?

Are you saving up some days? We save up money for retirement, and we save up our days: postponing our enjoyment and living of life. What is life for but the spending of our days, well? Are you saving up … Continue reading

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Play with fire

play with fire dare to grow old heal the world :- Doug.

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Healing powers

What do elders have that can heal the world? What are their powers you have noticed? :- Doug.

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seek over and again to understand

Meaning speaks through poetry I do not yet but must seek over and again to understand :- Doug.

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Discover the questions?

Will you discover the questions before your song is spent? :- Doug.

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Wisdom does not exist

I thought to strive to bring out the wisdom from those in converse with me. Then I realized wisdom does not exist. I need to seek in folks their humanity, to bring this out for all to see. :- Doug.

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passing, passing by

We, this era, are caught up in something passing, passing by insubstantial meaning, lasting lasting :- Doug.

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Make one’s soul

Each one when old has the possibility to make one’s own soul. :- Doug.

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Frail strength?

What can we learn from the most forgetful of us all? What is the lasting strength of the frailest of us all? :- Doug.

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Play makes grow

Play makes grow a child—and an elder. :- Doug.

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