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Feel vulnerable now?

In what ways do you feel vulnerable now? To what extent vulnerable, say on a 1-10 scale? :- Doug.

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After the white water?

What happens after a paradigm shift? What happens after the white water? What happens after the moments of sheer terror and before the stretches of utter boredom? :- Doug.

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Say a word?

Elders can get busy seeing the directions. For humanity. For clients. Have we ever seen a friend lost, and we saw how the foundering was playing out? Did we work out a way for us to say a word? What … Continue reading

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Which way the world is going to go

I’ll tell you which way the world is going to go. It’s humans loosely in charge of where the human world will go. Some will be lost and some for a long while. Some will see this way and some … Continue reading

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It’s not so much

It’s not so much we’ve lost our ways of touching one another It’s not so much we’ll one day go back It’s not so much we’ll find our ways as we have a chance to wonder about compassion empathy our … Continue reading

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Nurture inklings

Honor your inklings; spend time nurturing them; help them fully express themselves. :- Doug.

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2020 opportunity?

Will we use the opportunity of this 2020 to see more clearly? :- Doug.

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Taking my time

Have been taking my time and feeling guilty for it, like I should get moving. Yet slowness is for savoring this life. :- Doug.

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fingers on different keys

type with fingers on different keys read with eyes for random “words” :- Doug.

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Porpoise hollers

creativity has a pragmatic purpose imagination plays without rains porpoises jump about making hoops and hollers :- Doug.

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Poet enough

You could be poet enough. :- Doug.

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Change rules

Change the rules What are the rules? What rules your days? :- Doug.

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Last energy

Service takes willingness to expend one’s last energy—and then gives you more. :- Doug.

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Playfully skippingly slowly

Slowly savoringly lostly Dreamily slowly flowingly Playfully skippingly slowly :- Doug.

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I can rhythm

I can rhyme and I can rhythm There they go and I go with ‘em :- Doug.

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Definitions for ancestors?

Definitions seek to capture the essence of a word. To be succinct. Which is to say, be easy to remember, easy to test. For ancestors does this well trod path cover the territory, what these ancestors did, and more importantly … Continue reading

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Ask your fingers

I don’t know what you should write about: ask your writing fingers. :- Doug.

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