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Only people can visualize
Titles cannot
Only people can meet
Corporations cannot
Only people can make peace
Governments cannot
Only people can imagine
Only we

:- Doug.

We were not & now we are
We were seed & now we live
We were blind & now we see
We now see & stand before imagine
Now can we—what can we do?

:- Doug.

Don’t buy your charity
Holding back your body and your soul
With a bargain for your life
Give your all

:- Doug.

What makes us real is our divine vision
What makes G*d and any artist eternal is
the artist’s divine vision
expressed in the totality of the artist’s creation
Vision alone cannot create
—It must first meet
—After meet, create
Vision—fertile ground—meet
G*d the mix the weave the meet
Human needs human to create
G*d did not create before man
Once G*d met G*d in man, creating!

:- Doug.

Take charge for the world.

:- Doug.

We gather ordinary people to take charge for the world.

:- Doug.

Who would have gotten to frog from tadpole thinking?

:- Doug.

Not We shall overcome
Rather We shall be heard
We shall help people get heard

:- Doug.

This bothers me…does it bother you?

Everyday Diplomacy and picture taking

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 811

We can only measure part of something
All is immeasurable

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If you persist
in seeing others as other
soon your ultimate other
will be G*d

:- Doug.

We seek to bind G*d’s grace
To give us health or wealth
Or retribution
We’ve only bound ourselves so small

We try to bind G*d’s grace
Along this path or that
We only bind imagination
And so we bind ourselves

:- Doug.

G*d is not apart from you
G*d is a part of you
G*d is not separate from you
but interwoven
So if you see G*d out there,
fixing things for you
making your life go this way or that,
be kind
Remember, G*d is not separate,
out there, foreign
But of your essence
here with you
intimate
Nor are you separate, apart
G*d’s shalom is cosmic

:- Doug.

Let us ask the For question—
What are you saving For?
What will you retire For?
What are you saved For?

:- Doug.

Come down to the dream.

:- Doug.

It is the greatest of works to promote imagination.

:- Doug.

Jesus did not die for our sins
Jesus died for people
Jesus died for people’s freedom
From guilt
Nor did Jesus die to be sacrifice for our sins
It was the other way around—Jesus died
To sacrifice his life that we sacrifice ours
Jesus never said “Your sins—will—
Be forgiven” he said “Your sins—are—
Forgiven” He showed us what a life
full lived looks like
G*d did not demand a ransom to save our hides
—What kind of god do you believe in?—
The life full lived was to prove we
Can live full

:- Doug.

Life asks attention
Moves
Smells
Noises
Embraces
Touches
Tastes
Gives attention
Asks attention

:- Doug.

A preacher in his chambers entertains
Sin and her evil sister, Guilt
Sin does he care little for
Guilt he does with eyes adore
On Sin they close the boudoir door
To bring forth those things that G*d abhors
Chains & Fetters—his congregation’s slavers

:- Doug.

Our visionary work says to each, You too are visionary!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 810

We cannot be sure of the harvest, but we know that if we do not plant corn we will not get corn.

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Weave me! Make me part of the weave, integral. Bend me, twist me, knot me! If I break I am still whole! I live for ever!

:- Doug.

Our society is based upon fear of its people. Leaders of governments fear the “chaos” of people actually talking with each other—they may take control of their community! So limited access is the rule. Representative democracy is limited democracy.

How do we get beyond this? What about people who will vote their fears, will not open their vulnerability and truly meet? The answer has to come from the people, because the people is all we are, all we will ever have. That is to say, let’s work out that tough question and all others we may have in the only way that works: together. I will not win; you will not win: we will both be changed. There is a way.

:- Doug.