Category Archives: Family

There are many thoughts in this world & I would have us together Converse our way to the deeper :- Doug.

This world of family is unreliable and perilous. We cannot find a path to it that works every time (only one out of it). Moreover we cannot guarantee ourselves positive outcomes in every meeting. Not even reality. We only know … Continue reading →

Family conversation starts with a choice of observation point: relation or separation, presence or memory, one among or difference, real persons to meet or others to control. :- Doug.

How would we recognize family when we saw it? What gets in the way of it? What makes ready for it? For we can only ever really make ready. Make ourselves ready, open the space, invite. But grace is ever … Continue reading →

Sharing of selves happens by giving without trying to take to myself. We share being that belongs not solely to either of us. We get to family by working on the thread between and among us. The subject can be … Continue reading →

True family is I-Thou. :- Doug.

The threshold of holy space is Life fulfilling conversation Here, between, The holy space Is In this family, is Here Every here Yet evanescent :- Doug.

Since we must free the Thou for us to enter connection with Thou It is difficult for us to converse with loved ones Yet to live this paradox is to live We must free these very ones from our control … Continue reading →

This is immortality, family style: To start a relation that can never end. When we meet grandchild or grandparent and see into and with their being, when we see the future and the past as one thread—our thread, when we … Continue reading →