Monthly Archives: October 2015

How do we know when to say when?

How do we know when to say when? :- Doug.

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How do you start the conversation?

How do you start the conversation? Know when it’s time? Hard for you? Have an outline? :- Doug.

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The key

The key to the conversation is belonging to the conversation The key to the universe is belonging to the universe The key to spirit is belonging to the spirit The keystone of all there is is each ever-loving one of … Continue reading

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Medicine relying on statistics

Medicine relying on statistics is based on reasoning from the general to the specific. Law relying on stories is based on reasoning from the specific to the general. That’s why doctors and lawyers do not see eye to eye. :- … Continue reading

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Hairy white against

Hairy white against blue skies nature’s brush strokes curved straight lines? Only man :- Doug.

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You and I come in

You and I come in focus then fade to nothing brook babbles along :- Doug.

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I like haiku make

I like haiku make the syllables evoke from winter snows bright red :- Doug.

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Drinking the juice

When you squeeze the juice from conversing, what you get is participation in one another’s lives, plus reflection for going deeper. Still, drinking the juice is not the fruit of the matter. :- Doug.

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Lawyers tell stories

Lawyers tell stories Doctors tell statistics Accountants tell numbers All are necessary All are life :- Doug.

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nap

Now the best thing I can do for my clients is nap :- Doug.

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while wisdom goes on from there

To know and to know we know is homo sapiens sapiens to be proud of this is ego and stops our development while wisdom goes on from there :- Doug.

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To squeeze essence

To squeeze essence out from a fruit is not to have it full only its juice —wet and sweet —without pulp and texture so to say the essence of conversation is reflection and participation is to say something essential and … Continue reading

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To be alive is to participate

To be alive is to participate …in another’s life :- Doug.

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If I stop writing poetry

If I stop writing poetry I stop growing. :- Doug.

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Taking away your uncertainty

I would love to take away your certainty. And mine. The only thing that can give us life is meeting uncertainty—in one another’s face. :- Doug.

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Participating in lives

It’s more important for me as a lawyer to participate in my clients’ lives than to carry to them a message. :- Doug.

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Telling our pain

Telling our pain brings us truth and reconciliation brings us to now opens to us hope :- Doug.

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