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We live in non-conversation
We live in the avoidance of conversation
—chit chat
—deflected dialogue
—meaningless drivel
—avoiding challenge
—turning away from thinking
—fearing to commit our time
—afraid to be touched
Hear the buzz in the room?
It’s probably not conversation
not enough silence
not enough banter
too earnest.

:- Doug.

Rhythms and echoes
People and events
pulse and resound
when we turn our ear

:- Doug.

I ask people about the bigger questions that surround them, and they most often draw blanks. Yet there is violence all about, injustice, starvation of a hundred kinds. I do not know what it is, but you do. What could you hear, if you tuned your ears to it?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 705

Why do we not see the bigger pictures? Why do we not hear the conversations that want to happen? We need to listen to the subtle voices. We need perhaps to turn our ear to the sounds that are there with us. We need to turn our ears to the larger things. We live in the conversations that want to happen, and we are too busy.

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Sparkles on the pond, dance of the raindrops
sparkles on the pond, count them if you can
count can be redeemed by joys of sparkles and of dances

:- Doug.

There is a poetry to our meeting
a poetry to life
rhythm and sometimes echoes
we take for rhyme
we might as well
for we are the only ones
who will find meaning
here

:- Doug.

Isaiah hears out of the mouth
in verse one chapter Forty-three
echoes I hear, echoes:
redeem you, you redeem
call you by name, by name call you
you are mine, I am yours
he, she, it are yours, you are theirs
and in the echoes, life, life
and in the life, echoes, echoes
When you redeem the world
(this task and joy I give you)
call one person by name
then you have that one
and me
and we have you
you call her name you buy her back you give her birth
call you by name, by name call you
by name echoes echoes echoes

:- Doug.

I’m a mystic
which means by necessity
I’m an activist
ripping, ripping

:- Doug.

What does it mean to redeem
someone? A whole
world full of someones?

:- Doug.