Archive for October, 2013

Who wants to play and work with us?

Who wants to play and work with us?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 31st, 2013 | No Comments »

the bigger questions?

What are the bigger questions? Juicy questions? Verboten questions?

:- Doug.

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We each have our own metaphors

We each have our own metaphors.

:- Doug.

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Seekers ought to be seekers of God

Seekers ought to be seekers of God
All their lives & beyond
Never once seeking to find
For God (and each of us) always
Has infinitely more to explore

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 31st, 2013 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1368–Why do the people turning left?

Footprints in the Windsm # 1368

Why do the people turning left get to go first?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 30th, 2013 | No Comments »

Lights on early morning traffic

Lights on early morning traffic
fire hydrants stand guard
trees making oxygen
power and telephone lines connecting
love is all about
everywhere people caring for people

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 30th, 2013 | No Comments »

about God I miss

Every time I talk and write
about God I miss

:- Doug.

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Opening space for love to breathe

Opening space for love to breathe
encourages snarling conflict
else how can we claim love?

:- Doug.

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Open love’s space

Nurture love
open its space

:- Doug.

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Football has two goals

Football has two goals
a striving one against the other
a time out
from real life

:- Doug.

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What did lack of compassion look like?

What did lack of compassion look like? What was its genesis? What did compassion look like? How will we know when we have received or done compassion?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2013 | No Comments »

We are not as hefty

We are not as hefty
as our bodies
spirit, we morph
able to touch
inside, be
each other,
or entirely new

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2013 | No Comments »

I sat in Sunday meeting

I sat in Sunday meeting
seeking to hear you
speak to me
children played, ran
whispers
people coughed & spoke
your essence is
in here, in here

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2013 | No Comments »

seeing inside G

Insights are seeing inside G.

:- Doug.

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What will motivate compassion?

What will motivate individuals to want to make an extra effort at compassion? What will motivate our organizations and institutions, hospitals, colleges and universities?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2013 | No Comments »

Compassion when?

When do we need to first consider compassion for those approaching death? Do we stop too soon?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

Where compassion?

Where are our community’s nutrient places where compassion can first take root? Where in yourself are your senses of injustice, ethics, conscience and rage? Where in yourself can you find the strength and resolve to stand up for, to speak out for, those approaching death?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

Compassion acts

What are the compassionate practices already at work in this place? What is this place? What can it be? Can compassionate community mean something concrete to this place? What specific skills and attitudes lead to compassionate caring for those approaching death? What might we accomplish together that we wouldn’t separately? What can you do your next work day to bring more compassion to the dying? What might you personally do to bring this to the attention of your institution and associations? With whom can you team?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

Compassion how?

How might we show compassion for each of the persons we have identified? What might compassion look like, beyond what we are already doing? What are the barriers and things which slow our compassion, and how might we get beyond them? How might we make a system for compassion for those approaching death?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

For whom compassion?

For whom do we need to have compassion? The dying, their families, their nurses and doctors? Someone else? Who are our community’s exemplars of compassion? Who are the faces of compassion in our community? Whom should we invite to this conversation? Who would be likely sponsors and key persons? Who in this small group could invite them?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1367–The quality we call together

Footprints in the Windsm # 1367

Spirit is the quality we call together.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 27th, 2013 | No Comments »

whole-making, moving, spirit

Wind is whole-making, moving, spirit.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 27th, 2013 | No Comments »

Conversing is loving

Conversing is loving. The contrary of loving is ignoring, moving apart is itself loving. The wind ignores no one.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 27th, 2013 | No Comments »
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