imagine and make
Life is
not about what you get
nor even what you give
Life is
what all together
imagine and make
:- Doug.
Archive for January, 2008
P-I-E
Who needs people to make their project work? More precisely, who needs the PIE of people? Perspective, Imagination and Energy—of ordinary people—is what turns the world.
:- Doug.
The breath, the whisper
Conversation is
The breath upon the wheel
That starts the world a-turning
The whisper on the dandelion
That starts the parasols a-floating
:- Doug.
Seeds for a better community?
What are the conversations that may change this community? What are people talking about that could be seeds for a better community?
:- Doug.
Commitment to ongoingness
I see mediation as a commitment to permanence, to on-goingness.
It is not lock-step but walking in a crowd without seeking violence or kicking. It is being polite, emphasis on being. It is walking in the crowd and being smitten with its possibilities, knowing work is involved.
:- Doug.
Not to prevent conflict
The job of the mediator is not to prevent conflict, nor even to eliminate it, but to find ways to have persons meet and live together, in the face of the conflict. I started to write “despite the conflict” but that is too narrow. The conflict is to be respected and encouraged; it is only the turning to violence that is the negative. Violence in fact comes out of the thinking that conflict is bad. In a diverse world, with divers peoples, conflict is not only inevitable, it is good, so we grow.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 824
Footprints in the Windsm # 824
Can we live in a larger world
Than ever we have before?
The world that we can think about
Is puny by comparison
To what can happen if we let it
Thinking opens doors to only ordinary things
Bumping’s the trick of the nothing in between
Where living lives & giving gives
& Everything in nothing is
What grows a larger living world
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We gather, ordinary people
We gather, ordinary people; tap into our perspectives and imaginations; together we make the world better.
:- Doug.
To disorganize the world
To disorganize the world into something better move from herded to heard.
:- Doug.
The difference between meetings and Meeting
The difference between meetings and Meeting is the difference between herded and heard.
:- Doug.
Not just from you
Living comes not just from you
Nor yet from outside
Nor yet from betweens
All
Communion with the universe
:- Doug.
What conversations now?
What conversations that matter are going on now? What are the conversations that could matter?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 823
Footprints in the Windsm # 823
As wide as any sunset
As tingly as my feet
Such is the work that’s ours to do
As well the G*d we meet
Please pass it on.
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