Archive for October, 2007

Footprints in the Wind sm # 806

Footprints in the Windsm # 806

Complexities of complexities
All of life is complexities
Interwoven interweavings
Yet we hope to untangle
With one mind one finger
Let us try to apply
Complexities to complexities
All of the minds we find
In life all tangled
Many minds many places from which to view
Many fingers some to hold some to pull
Some to figure eleven next moves
Complexities working on complexities
Worth a try it may just work
For us


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 31st, 2007 | No Comments »

Problems we face

Problems we face are not ultimates
Our visioning heals, our vision creates

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 31st, 2007 | No Comments »

G*d-sized being

Grow into your G*d-sized being
Attune your eyes to paint the beauty

:- Doug.

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We have turned our rugged individualism

We have turned our rugged individualism from its creative roots to selfhood, seeking not to give to the world but take. Let us turn to working together so we can re-learn the art of working alone.

:- Doug.

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Our world flounders

Our world flounders
—unconscious—
do we shake
do we nudge
to wake the beauty
of our world
—it is—us

Continually, urgently
paint us images
tell us stories
nudge and shake, yes
for there is beauty
there is love
—it is—us

What dread beauty?
what dread consciousness?
can we wake to
out of this
dreamless globe?
—it needs to be
—it is—us

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 31st, 2007 | No Comments »

On behalf of the world

On behalf of the world, I am receiving people’s gifts.

:- Doug.

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

possible world?

What is possible in the world?

:- Doug.

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

What could?

What could this world be?

:- Doug.

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

The genius genus

The genius of humankind and
The genus of humankind are both
Imagination

:- Doug.

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

Closely related

Work and imagination are closely related.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2007 | No Comments »

Work on G*d

My work is on imagination
My work is on G*d!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2007 | No Comments »

Results are in

Results
are in changed—
physical things
hearts
imaginations
—The most lasting
is this last

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2007 | No Comments »

encourage vision

Let us ask each other “What do you see?”
Let us encourage vision.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2007 | No Comments »

E = MC^2

Existence = perception (E) X imagination (C) squared
E = MC^2

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2007 | No Comments »

The kernel of hearing

The kernel of hearing
a person
—to be heard each—needs—
is receiving
his or her gifts

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2007 | No Comments »

Real work

Real work
conversation
meeting
imagining

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2007 | No Comments »

Strange and boring

There are 7 billion of us; strange it would be if G*d required each one to bend in exactly the same way to him—and for G*d, boring!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 805

Footprints in the Windsm # 805

It is about questions and listening and hearing. It is about increasing the world’s store of compassion. It is not about measuring sticks and over-filling bellies. It is about curiosity. It is about meeting.

Others are not other. Diversity is increasing the world’s circulation of imagination.

It is not about accomplishment, but about what swirls—what it swirls from and towards, and how it changes the swirlers. It is about circulation and flow and imagination and compassion and hearing and meeting and engaging. It may not even be possible, but it is necessary. It is about being responsible to the world.

It’s about doing what has to be done because it comes from our essence.

Our essence is each other.

So it is not even about the probability of success. This is what people hint at when they say it is not the destination but the journey. Our essence is each other. Imagination, diversity, curiosity, loving, meeting, doing, engaging, conversing: if there is anything excellent, work on these things.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 27th, 2007 | No Comments »

Main event?

How can this be part of the main event?

:- Doug.

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

It is more important to be in

I believe
It is more important to be in
Conversation
Intercourse
With G*d
Than to believe

:- Doug.

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

A goal of retirement delays

A goal of retirement
delays living and giving
till later
when there may be no more time
Begin: Do your giving: Now

:- Doug.

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

Will you listen?

Will you listen?
Let me meet you
Let me be heard
Let us converse

:- Doug.

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

Artist, your vision demands

Artist, your vision demands
striving
now
to bring it to
creation
fruition

Perform it on earth
with the people
to see

Imagine
then work
Imagine
is work

It is not simply given
you are required

:- Doug.

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