Archive for July 19th, 2007

A shower warm and tingly

A shower warm and tingly
washing away the dirt
to reveal your beauty

A lover exploring, discovering
a new real you
caressing, tickling

A challenge, poking and prodding
bringing anguished examination
perchance light, new direction

The air above the net in a tennis game
clear, conduit
moving, influencing, perhaps creating

What does it feel like inside a conversation?
What does it feel like to be the third person arising?
What does it feel like to create and mold and blow
upon to shape another person?

How does it feel to create without touching flesh?
Where “all” you have is blowing and whistling
and planting inklings?
Where you are being morphed
and morphing, shaping and being shaped?

What does love feel like?
What does fertility feel like?

:- Doug.

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This is about

This is about
helping people become intimate with their life in their world
asking What gives us hope?
connecting what we do with the needs of the world in our epoch
getting people the opportunity to re-examine themselves and their issues and their relationships to their issues
people tackling bugbears and finding others willing to help
posting your most challenging questions on the wall and engaging whomever walks past…even if there is no wall
people working together to make the kind of world we want for our grandchildren

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Wind sm # 779

Footprints in the Windsm # 779

Perhaps when we say self organization what we mean is self creation, and this in fact is what people hear—and fear. We might create monsters (monsters there already be). We might create tyrants (Hitler and Saddam). But we might create lovers (Jesus, Mother Teresa, Buddha) as well. If as Blake says we are the divine human, part of the continent and not islands, then we do create. A and B come together to create X. X creates A, B, A and B, and X.

How is this so? Everyone we have ever met is a part of us, has added to or subtracted from us, our essence, our personality, our soul, our spirit, use the word you are comfortable with. We too are a part of them. We also work on the ideas and images we receive and make them into us—so we are creating ourselves. All the time.

As ordinary as all this is, it is also extraordinary and miraculous. That is because we are not mere computers learning to build other computers and ourselves, but we are the wind, able to leap centuries with a single bound, touch hearts a continent away, and be.


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