Archive for July, 2007

What is doing?

What is doing? We are always doing—our cells are dying and regenerating; our organs are digesting, breathing, beating; our synapses are firing; our eyes are taking in photons, our ears waves. Rest is often simply the time another muscle is contracting. Lying on the beach taking in the sun is still a time heart and lungs are busy. So what is doing? Is being simply a pondering of what is out there, that is, an action in here, while doing is an action out there, on others or on things? Being, at least pondering, might be rearranging the pattern of synapses firing—an in here activity. So as a do-be, we are always doing and being, and perhaps what we call doing is a doing out there, and what we call being is a doing in here.

We are ever always weaving and being woven and the larger weaving we call, because we want to call all we experience, G*d. G*d is not separate but part of the weave.

:- Doug.

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

Do-be Do-be Do

Being is being creative
We are the weaving
There is no being apart from doing
Nor doing apart from being
There is realization—learning—
reflection—in just being here—
There is observation—reception—
acceptance—opening to the other—
there is letting one’s being out—
to play—for others to see—
Just being is weaving—weaving
me, weaving us, weaving
cosmos, weaving meaning, only weaving:
inseparable—being-doing

:- Doug.

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

Disorganizer of grey cloths

I am a community disorganizer—because—isn’t there a grey cloth over each of our heads, a grey cloth that needs ripping?

:- Doug.

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

The conversation of your life

Invite people together to have the conversation of your life.

:- Doug.

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

Yet a gift

You have yet a gift to give to the world.

:- Doug.

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

Tell me your story

Tell me your story.
Where is the pain?
What were the peak times?

:- Doug.

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

Ongoing

Creation is ongoing into our day
What we thought so wonderfully fitted
Was maybe created by just that event

:- Doug.

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

They might ignite!

We can turn to fire
especially when wooden and dry
be careful how close you stand
to such a one—they might ignite!

Seek out what is like fire in us
questions and stories are bow and flint
invite us near to our own sparks
we were always one with the fire!

:- Doug.

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

Footprints in the Wind sm # 782

Footprints in the Windsm # 782

The Spirit of the Lord is a butterfly, flitting where it will, bringing joy and beauty to all, uncapturable, unownable, but belonging to all.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 28th, 2007 | No Comments »

Honor your gifts

Honor your gifts: give them bigger!

:- Doug.

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

This is the larger, the valuable gift

This is the larger gift, the valuable gift. Can we get beyond the grinding stone?

Beyond is divinity. Moving beyond seeing only the stone grinding to seeing our task as divine.

People are divine humans when they become aware they are. When they get to work at weaving the larger fabric.

:- Doug.

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

Footprints in the Wind sm # 781

Footprints in the Windsm # 781

Wanted: Troublemakers.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 25th, 2007 | No Comments »

Pushing?

How can we ever have peace if we keep pushing them away?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 25th, 2007 | No Comments »

Not with our eyes

Imagination adds the perceiver to the object. The world is about creation.

We need to distill and subtract at times, but when it comes to understanding and working the world, imagination is the tool that sets us to creating.

To be is to perceive. To live is to imagine. We see with our mind, our imagination, and our enthusiasm, not with our eyes.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 24th, 2007 | No Comments »

Dissection kills

Analysis is dissection and that kills, synthesis breathes.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 23rd, 2007 | No Comments »

Making the secular sacred

We do not make the secular sacred
we reveal it so

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 23rd, 2007 | No Comments »

Creates our life

Community conversation creates our life.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »

The wind the pattern the weave

Speak to me of G?d my friend
unknown who beyond my ken
pattern weave and wind

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 780

Footprints in the Windsm # 780

Our community in conversation creates life. If we converse well, we get life. If we choose to converse about death and dysfunction and duality, we breed assassination, rape, terror.

We can choose to take our world into our hands and make it a living place that works for all. This is the issue of our age. We can choose how we meet it.

We do choose how we meet it every day: sometimes we choose to converse with others about what we might do—and then do it; most often we shake our heads and go back to our half-pounder with cheese and bacon and fries—eaten alone inside our SUV. We get what we converse about. If we are to deserve more, we need to take the risk of starting the conversation.

This does not mean we close our eyes to assassination, rape, and terror, and turn our news programs into sugar-coated fantasies. What we can do is turn our attention to the ways people are meeting these challenges. This is the real news, not the sensationalism which leads us to despair and felt terror. This is the really sensational: humans meeting the challenge. We can pay attention to the challenge, or we can invest our attention into the work of meeting the challenge. So our news becomes stories of people working between the bombs and in the burned-out places to bind wounds, build new things, and grow people. No more just Hell only. Hell and grace.

But the key lies not in our news programs. We can choose today to turn them off. The key lies in choosing today: life or death? Hell only, or Hell and grace?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 21st, 2007 | No Comments »

There is a certain ism-ist

There is a certain ism-ist
writing in our day
an ego great upon his sleeve
and try as hard as he does not
(don’t you want to heave?)
he cannot put it far away
and so it gets into our nay

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 21st, 2007 | No Comments »

Sometimes handy

When we do not see
sometimes it’s handy to look

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 21st, 2007 | No Comments »

takes blanket

She rolls and takes blanket
I can tug back
or yield more
either way we are both covered

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 20th, 2007 | No Comments »

Fabric is comprised of threads

Fabric is comprised of threads
appears from the weave
each thread essential
to pattern and holding together
touch one touch all
this colored textured loose fabric
is called humanity
its weave G*d

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 20th, 2007 | No Comments »
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