Archive for April, 2007

Change is a glimmer

Change is a glimmer, nudges a groggy hope toward wakefulness, becomes possible, gathers one then two, and soon something is happening: change grows in conversation.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 30th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 761

Footprints in the Windsm # 761

When we move beyond struggle
To see our impermanence as loving us
We expand toward infinity.
All moves from solidity
To ephemera, and back, and back,
As by a larger respiration.
The question is not how safe can we get
Rather how open can we be?
Are these for you good:
Wonder and surprise?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on April 29th, 2007 | No Comments »

You haven’t thought it through

You haven’t thought it through until you’ve come to the conclusion you’ve exhausted all you can, and that after you have searched all you can.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 27th, 2007 | No Comments »

see I sacrifice to you

G*d would not allow
the sacrifice of a son to G*d
instead G*d sacrificed to us!

Dream of what you are capable:
see I sacrifice to you!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 27th, 2007 | No Comments »

Persons doing what agencies cannot

This is people doing what agencies, corporations, movements and governments cannot—creating human connections.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 27th, 2007 | No Comments »

Who are men?

Jesus promised to make them fishers of men. Who are men? Adults. People capable of bigger things than Jesus. Not cattle to be led or driven or milked. They even left the fish on the shore! So we are here to catch men and women and in this case us!, our imaginations in particular, and put them to use in feeding and tending lambs and sheep—those who need our care. Who? is the question—Who are the sheep and lambs for us to tend and feed?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 26th, 2007 | No Comments »

Open with a listening mind

Open with a listening mind
Go beyond listening:
To hear
To meet
Today

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 25th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 760

Footprints in the Windsm # 760

Why do we find it difficult to talk to our closest people about important heart matters? Perhaps it is as simple as stories. We stop growing together when we stop telling stories. Our need for stories is on-growing.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on April 25th, 2007 | No Comments »

how Jesus

Conversation is how Jesus changed the world.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 24th, 2007 | No Comments »

No retiring

I do not intend to retire and that is beginning to look like a gift.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 24th, 2007 | No Comments »

surprise disturb connect

G*d surprises, disturbs and connects
So can we

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 23rd, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 759

Footprints in the Windsm # 759

Have you ever seen a string of cows
at the waning of the light
headed toward their stations
to be relieved of the milk their chewing
through the day has produced?

How they can remind us of humans
of the workplace queuing up at end of day
headed home to dinner and television
to rest and make ready to do it all another day
nor looking to see beyond the repeating cycles

Maybe imagination will let us see
or some offhand remark show us
—if we choose to look larger and pay attention—
all the people (voices seldom heard too)
live out our lives: of our world, creators


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on April 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »

Dial it up!

Dial it up! Dial it to the limit! Choose life.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »

The larger mind

We are part of the larger brain, mind, body.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »

People have become creators

This is another piece of our vision: People have become creators.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »

All we want

We’re not given to achieve all we want, but that does not mean we should cease trying.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »

Incapable of children

To only tear down is to be incapable of producing children, life.

: – Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »

The us-ing of us

You are the personal who is the among that is between us, the birthing of us daily, the weaning of us, the us-ing of us, the prodding of us, the un-finishing of us. Do you only have meaning in us? What is the meaning of us?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 20th, 2007 | No Comments »

Unfinished art

This would be good for a piece of art: left unfinished, for others to fill in, to call to others—and to us—to complete. What does our world look like? What do we want? What is possible? What can you fill out?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 20th, 2007 | No Comments »

Making good

This is my vision: People talking. People hearing. Making good.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 20th, 2007 | No Comments »

Business and peace

How can business ultimately lead to peace, if it is based upon a model of competition, that is muted war? We absolutely need to change the metaphor of business to something more organic and cooperative, something that works with life, not against it.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 20th, 2007 | No Comments »

Not a choice

If you are tearing down, what are you left with? Nothing. So human nature is left with a choice between creating something or nothing, and this is not a choice. Humans therefore are predisposed to make good.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 20th, 2007 | No Comments »

The world is personal

The world is personal: the world means you.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 20th, 2007 | No Comments »
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