Monthly Archives: July 2020

Condor from out of nowhere

But you have a much larger gift you can give, or at least offer. However it will cost you. It will be a condor from out of nowhere sinking its talons into you, carrying you away, over the abyss. You … Continue reading

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Fog in the valley, nothing more

You have the gift of having seen this long-term care thing in many guises and appearances. You can see long view over their case, over their needs, and the outlines of where this will come out the other side. You … Continue reading

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Brilliant white tops

Last October, I was in the observation car of The Capitol Limited train, as it came around the mountain. There, for the space of few ticks of the clock, I was witness. The early sun just caught the tops of … Continue reading

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Give generations?

Today: What did you give yourself? What did you give the generations? :- Doug.

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making living

Poetry is not about the making of it but the living of it :- Doug.

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29 things

Make a list of 29 things and events from yesterday, just to limber up your writing exploring side. :- Doug.

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Talk in poetry

I will not talk about poetry I will talk in poetry :- Doug.

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The largest

Poetry making is about your relationship to your meaning-finding, to humanity and these humans, to the largest you can conceive, in this writing day. :- Doug.

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Poetry making helps

Poetry making might help you with something as surface as marketing or as deepening as your relationship to humanity and all mystery. :- Doug.

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Can lawyers “love?”

Can lawyers use the word “love?” Can lawyers love their clients? :- Doug.

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Juicier person

Perhaps we’d produce juicer fruit by seeking out that one person in 1,000 or 10,000 working on and worked by it. :- Doug.

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Question your questions

Question your questions ever seek questions dynamic and difficult deeper than Why and Why again and helped by it :- Doug.

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head to bed

Reflect today Before you put your head to bed :- Doug.

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Examine consider reflect

Examine consider reflect waste not your life :- Doug.

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Work a-bud

Poetry is work Productive to the extent We labor for fresh metaphors a-bud :- Doug.

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Floorward crumbles

Inviting a bow from the other by his own deeper with his eyes points a way opens with a simple question and the other floorward crumbles :- Doug.

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All on the lectern

Leave it all on the lectern. :- Doug.

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