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The difficulty with our ability to meet productively has less to do with the people and more with how we meet and with what intention. Do we meet from habit or because the boss or the culture requires it? Then we do not meet. Or do we meet with a common aim and common guidelines in mind and heart? Do we say what we are about and raise our sights, expectations and hope? We could and then more is possible.

:- Doug.

Have you fallen for the common trap
thinking me an optimist?
Never have I joined that club
nor more than thrice attended
Were to me the world a rosy playground
I’d take the side of the pointed thorns
against those mothers who seek to protect
their children from life and imagination
For we have only ourselves and no guarantee
that the risks we take and the sweat we invest
will ever end
Surely those who oppose us
will be abetted by masses who don’t care
Still we have only ourselves and no guarantee
There is work to be done so let’s get to it

:- Doug.

King George processes
Missiles and warheads in his right hand
slaver chains in his left
a crown of electrons spinning his head
all about people choose to bow
thinking him the god of their prosperity

:- Doug.

Act upon your world
the persons you meet
not just be acted upon
as if you were some dumb It
nor just created clay but creator
prophet, poet:
act upon your created world
the persons you want to meet

:- Doug.

What can we in conversation create? For starters: new persons, new communities, new species.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 754

Invite more people to become active players in the improvement of each others’ lives.

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Have you met your Meeter? When, then? Are you willing? What gift can you take with you, but only your vulnerable self?

:- Doug.

G*d is the one who is coming.

:- Doug.

Born in meeting is
each person’s uniqueness
Each meeting this person
grows more
unique, inimitable, undefinable

:- Doug.

Ode to A Grecian Urn by John Keats said – – ‘”Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”
that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.’
As sensythesic and synesthesic humans we can see, hear, feel, taste, and smell anything we focus on. That skill will become more commonly used in sensing truth in the future. Even “a foreign to us language can” be so sensed.
When all five senses yield a congruent, coherent report – – – it is pretty, it smells nice, feels good to our heart, and makes beautiful sounds and is integrated in a beautiful pleasing gestalt, we will know that what we thought or were told or read or spoke is true, as truth is beautiful. We can sense and know without any doubt what is and what is not true.

sorry – this was my first post and was not spell checked and i did not identify myself, Bud, as the person posting this.

Who are you Lord? I am among; I am beyond; I am whoosh.

:- Doug.

Meeting holds a living tension between hearing the other and speaking your truth, between bringing the other inside you and putting yourself forth. Address demands what it does not want: wholeness standing in the way.

:- Doug.

What is your story?

:- Doug.

Since when do prophets always know precisely what they are saying and for why? Did Jonah? Ezekiel? Is it possible that the inklings you get are divinely inspired, and all depends on you saying it forth?

:- Doug.

All persons have resources, whatever their circumstances, chief among them the imagination that runs between.

:- Doug.

What we think we most lack, and what we have as our greatest resources, are our connections.

:- Doug.