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There is more to the world than what I see. There is more to the world than what any one person sees. If we get together, we can see more. There will be differences and those differences must be lived out. They will add to the richness of life for all. We need to move beyond irritation, beyond live and let live, to moving around in this bizarre, bazaar world. What is there to do with this mess but live, love, squabble, laugh?

:- Doug.

The job of peace making may be more difficult than the job of war making.

:- Doug.

The wind is blowing the clouds apart, opening to me the smiling blue.

:- Doug.

These years, I am learning the craft of poetry.

:- Doug.

Not all questions get answers.

:- Doug.

If we allow our polarizations
to breathe in our presence
we will find polarization is safe
in our hands and the content
of our views matters far less
than our coming together.

We fear polarization because
we have never looked on
its other side and
seen it is in us.
Fear not; take
my hand, let us
walk round and see.

The object is not to heal
the divisions among us
nor yet to blend us into
one bland pablum
—there are so many of us that
seething creativity is sure—
the object is to bring
it all in
to whole
For it is all us, human

:- Doug.

We cannot make peace
by talking
only by hearing

:- Doug.