Category Archives: Eldering
Storyteller, dialogue!
Storyteller, dialogue! With your story, with characters inside and out! :- Doug.
tints and tones
Poetry offers you a way to develop in nuanced tints and tones your lived value. :- Doug.
climb above the fog
I am saying to see with new eyes, to look afresh, to climb above the fog and the clouds, however you might get there—climbing a tree, riding a train, sitting at your poetry desk—and see what new you can see. … Continue reading
Release multitudes
I am seeing my way clear to teaching better. What? Not so much how but why, not so much why as direction, turning heads. Snapping heads. To seeing ourselves larger, as releasing multitudes. Walt Whitman contained multitudes; you release them. … Continue reading
to-bleed-for work
There is work we need to undertake—difficult to-bleed-for work—like to help along the conversation about reparations, or to help along the conversation about life after our current divisions. :- Doug.
What is the business of fog?
What is the business of fog? Of clouds? Of rocks? Of me? Of my ancestoring? :- Doug.
A way to test:
A way to test: Does it diminish us or grow us? :- Doug.
Break your past?
What if your future were a break with your past? :- Doug.
sensitivities for colors
A child’s narrow perspective an adult’s as wide as life has been in greying years do we gain broader still sensitivities for colors, fragrances, movements of possibilities in living? :- Doug.
For people who may come along
For people who may come along some day, what do you think of them? What if anything do you want them to think: of your thoughts; of what you started; of this age; for thinking’s sake; for humanity’s sake? :- … Continue reading
wide as stars shine
I want to get better with my poetry and writing, which is to say, to reach deep inside people of the generations and draw them out as wide as stars shine. :- Doug.
I release multitudes
I am circling around something akin to unfolding humanicity. I release multitudes, throngs, crowds. :- Doug.
Writing to myself
I’m writing to myself for the grandchildren :- Doug.
naked and alone
naked and alone an idea is such a weak thing :- Doug.
Rise to expectations
People rise to expectations Prime among them you :- Doug.