What do we want from conversation? What do we want from changing the world? To make it the way we want it, or to give it the correct direction? It is hubris to think that one person knows how the world should look; it is humility to say we want it to have this savor, piquancy. We can and must help shape.
:- Doug.
If you have ever felt a dissatisfaction with being limited to needs, then you know the whiff of the human.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 840
When we meet another, truly meet, we change the all there is. It is not in little ways but in big ways, for we open the possibility of other meeting and other change and on.
Meeting—conversation—is how we evolve the world. It may not be the direction we want, but it always works. It always makes the change. It goes where it goes and comes out where it comes out, without our control, but with our part used and made effective.
Please pass it on.
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It’s 40—50—60 years:
This is your wake up call
Do you know where your heart and mind are?
:- Doug.
When I write “G*d is…”
I mean “Is G*d?”
I mean “This is what I saw today”
I mean to point through myself
:- Doug.
Humankind stuff:
Blessing
Good
Repair of the world
Loving
Taking hands on
Shaping
Naming
Planting
Gardening
Tending
Husbanding
Molding
Sweating
Forging
Warring
Warrioring
Hugging
Begetting
Bringing forth
Conceiving
Spiraling
Eviling
Ripping
Awakening
Arising
Emerging
Betweening
Meeting
Conversing
Intercoursing
Interplaying
Divinizing
Saving G*d
Sacrificing
Abandoning ego
Presencing
Relating
Glancing
Accepting
Confirming
Inviting
Opening
Welcoming
Feeding
Hosting
Encouraging
Stepping small
Seeing large
More
Arousing
Playing
Gathering
Hearing
Hearting
Hearthing
Touching
Being touched
Expanding
Exploding
Disorganizing
Jumping into the chaos
Fire!
Yin
Yang
Dark
Light
Shimmer
Taking responsibility
Soaring
Capax universi
Poking holes
Telling stories
Giving hope
Hearing hope
Having it all
Shining lights
Being divinity among
Making fertile
Fecund
Ripe
Compassioning
Loosening
Tickling
Wholing
Daily
Unknowing going
One more
Neighboring
Grouping
Groping
Reaching
Grasping
Letting go
Meditating
Jumping up
Doing
Being
Finding meaning
Making meaning
Asking questions
Proposing answers
Theorizing
Incompleting
Complex
Simple
Complaining
Celebrating
Sorrowing
Grieving
Sitting with
Person-ing
Dignifying
Paying attention
Giving attention
Budding branches
Flowering
Raising heads
Seeing rainbows
Feeling snow
Awkwarding
Trying again
Creating
Living
Wondering
Surprising
Kindness
The stuffing of G*d
Divine We
:- Doug.
When we find the other people in the universe
Will we love them?
When we find the other people in the world
Will we love them?
:- Doug.
Community Disorganizing is more profound than its humor: raises the question whether organization is as empty as all goals, impossible to humanity, for something ever comes after: chaos. Community Disorganizing names healthy living: to take hands on what comes and mold creatively, lovingly, as good as we can. Take hands on what comes to shape what comes next.
:- Doug.
Our dog
Our horse
Wait upon our glance
To play with us, to play with us
And so our Friend
The one who stands in front of us
& The one who moves, transparently
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 839
The story never told…
Its possessor makes possessed
Yet when rehearsed sets free
Its holder & a whole community
The story told & told again
Sparks our hope, sets us to working
Please pass it on.
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G*d stuff:
Conversation
Intercourse
Interplay
Human
Cor, Couer, Core, Corps
Weave
Meeting
Person-al
Love
Life
Movement
Response
Change
Heart
Verb
Adjective
Faithful
Trusting
Trustworthy
Demanding
Adult
Friend
Puppet-less
More
The All There Is
Universe
Multiverse
Nested
Bigger
Light
Shimmering blackness
Between
Threads
Prodigal
Hugging
Needing
Touching
Touched
Crazy
Here
Hear
Branching
Gathering
Sending
Playful
Adolescent
Child-like
Still
Small
Reaching
Laughing
Cheering
Knowing you could
Calling
Rapping
Imagining
Imaging
Creating
Begetting
Bringing forth
Coursing
Flowing
Dancing
Playing
Inviting
Welcoming
Transforming
Feeding
Feasting
Partying
Eating
Being eaten
Sacrificing
Giving, giving all
Vulnerable
Pervading
Suffusing
Larger than that
Huggable
Inside
Outside
With
Within
Weaning
Aboving
Beyonding
Ahead
Amonging
Adulting
Belonging
Betweening
Birthing
Beginning
Beforing
Bewildering
Opening
Being
Breathing
Bolding
Working
Whooshing
Winding
Why-notting
Standing before me
Close
Among us
Present
Presence
Can-do
Please-do
Do-si-do
Do-be-do-be-do
Positiva
Negativa
Capax universi
Possible
Good
Good-making
Wanting us
Part of us
Participating
Pink
Living
Pulsing
Respiring
Air
Wind
Breath
Flow
Confronting
Delving
Opening
Transparent
Word
Not captured in a word
Handle-able without handles
Like us
Divine Human
Stringless
Grieved but willing
Ever new
Ever beginning
We
Order
Chaos
Darkness
Evil
Heaven
Hell
Yin
Yang
Male
Female
Turning
Meaning
Healing
Wholing
Humanizing
Shaloming
Expanding
Exploding
Loosening
Earthing
Planting
Seeding
Pruning
Harvesting
Winnowing
Cycling
Spinning
Spiraling
Compassioning
Tickling
Singing
Out!
:- Doug.
Good & Evil
Chaos & Order
Do & Be
Struggle or dance or…
One spins into the
Other spins into the first
Are we getting anywhere?
We are learning how to meet others. When we meet, then we do, we create, something new is given space to open, to flower. Surprise is possible. Between is where. Between is how. Between is be and do.
Surprise is possible.
:- Doug.
Meaning is not a finished noun to be polished and held up to the light to discern its for-all-timeness. Nor is it a verb simply in motion by itself. It is more but not solely adjective, touching and being touched, creating and being created, singing and being sung into beingness in motion, touching….
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 838
Meeting takes you me between. I must bring me. It seems to me this is a problem many people share with me: fear of bringing me, and lack of experience and imagination in doing so.
That’s why we want to have speakers and experts and authors: to seed our imagination. Little do we know that the person beside us could do that wonder for us.
Please pass it on.
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