Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

Pandemic open us?

To what can this pandemic open us? What can we see now we didn’t before? Let’s look all the way to seeing :- Doug.

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A dying whose time has come

This pandemic is a death; certainly many die. But it is, if we let it, a dying of something whose time has come in our culture. We are now in fearing, that is, in anticipatory grieving. Soon we will be … Continue reading

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January baby boom

Consider we will have a January baby boom Consider we make time to consider, to reflect :- Doug.

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Let’s not go back

Let’s not go back to business as usual Let’s go better to serving life and living :- Doug.

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We don’t need to get through covid-19

After Covid-19, it’s a new world out there. We don’t need to get through it, we need to help one another get through it. To a new side. :- Doug.

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Pandemic turn

Could this pandemic Turn us to one another Maybe we’ll find our purpose is each other? :- Doug.

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Because you see this other

You are because another sees you You are because another hears you Whom do you see and hear in 300 years? :- Doug.

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Deepeners

One man had a heart attack Both my parents died the same night What were your deepeners? :- Doug.

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Point from this commons

Some words don’t speak to some people. So we need to get beneath words to what the words point to, speak and point from this commons. :- Doug.

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They cannot hear those words

You say there are no words to say the deep things. Maybe there are, and the ones you are speaking to cannot hear those words. :- Doug.

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Pandemic stories

We’re still at the place in this pandemic where we tell numbers as if they were the story—numbers of confirmed cases, numbers dead, numbers tested. Or, we tell vignettes of people experiencing it. Is there yet another story? :- Doug.

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A good long while

If it’s going to do us any good, this pandemic will have to last a good long while. :- Doug.

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Abdicate death

Some say we will soon eradicate death. If we abdicate death what will become of us, our meaning, our humanity, our compassion? :- Doug.

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Skill-worthy

Dying—the wrestling with dying— is skill-worthy and you worthy of that skill study those who are at least don’t back away don’t run stand in that raging wind for such a poet this work is not difficult it is the … Continue reading

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tutors from tumors

Our teachers oft times are our wounds our tutors our tumors :- Doug.

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know, finally know

How will we go if we know, finally know we’ll never arrive? :- Doug.

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discovering bread

Finding poems discovering bread :- Doug.

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