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I make it my business to engage the world to see what we can make.

:- Doug.

Each of us mixes with the people of the earth in a different way and we bring forth something never before alive. We ought to be confused! There are no paths well trod that will do—for any of us! We do not simply hack a new path through the undergrowth, we and the undergrowth grow a living one which weaves us with the undergrowth! Meet the world coming to meet you and see what mark you leave on each other!What you engender together, no untouched catalysts, both touched and touching! Combination! Symphony!

:- Doug.

Individuals are limitation and variety: such is our glory and our advantage—if we come together. Only then do we know growth and unheard of novelty. We have been given lessness and specialness in order that we might discover vital contact.

:- Doug.

You have in your essence Christ, the sonliness of G*d.

:- Doug.

At Sixty we can be young, just now learning to live.

:- Doug.

Wire cutters will not do. It takes a live flame to light a wick.

:- Doug.

Who cares enough to say what matters?

:- Doug.

Elements of dialogue:
Misunderstanding
Carrying forward
Creativity
Reaching toward
Opposition
Dark and light

:- Doug.

Don’t you get it? I don’t care about your sins! Now get on with the work of eternity, your home.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 847

Poetry asks poet—
Find words to open
Poet & Reader & Word
Shh—words
Send out word to find no word
Rhythm to find rhythm
Pull out us—each & all
Seek luscious ambiguity
Beyond ambiguity—evoke—
Sensuous spirit sinewy
Full of life rich meaty overflowing
Educing seducing enticing adjectival
Modifying each other
Only words? Persons too
Twisting winding
Life arising reaching
Out embracing bracing
Chewy juicy dab your beard
Hear we are
Heart we stand upon to see afar
Ask your words to hear
Savor, caress
Summon tides
Ring out wonder!

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Work for the kind-dom.

:- Doug.

It is to great work that we entangle people.

:- Doug.

In community, be a compost turner.

:- Doug.

To worship means to attend to G*d, word and response, turn.

:- Doug.

From the people
G*d arising
From G*d
People arising
From conversation

:- Doug.

The beginning was the word
We are the response
Still called to respond

:- Doug.

Being and doing are the same in their essence. Not the doing of intention, which interposes the intention between the being and doing, but the doing that flows from being and the being that flows from doing, unhampered. We do not so much seek to communicate as we have a need to communicate: it flows from our being and our being flows from it.

So there is indeed a mystery of word and answer. Sometimes the word is silence, or waiting, or standing there in the face, or even before the face arrives. Sometimes that is the response. Word and response. Silence to silence, waiting to waiting, together can be enough.

:- Doug.

Be a ravel-rouser
Dance the tangle

:- Doug.

Life is engendered in conflict. Physically, in two bodies working toward and away from one another. In literature, the life of the story sparks in the play of opposing forces. In cosmic dimensions, explosion creates. When all is spent, something new!

:- Doug.

Possigiggle and words like it are of synthesis: you cannot analyze them: tearing apart only yields letters and torn bits, and no learning. They want to stick to others, pull from them, and make new things. They are in the world to evoke our creative and playful

:- Doug.

First, ya gotta want to change the world. Then people gotta hear people.

:- Doug.

I can show you how to hear people into changing the world.

:- Doug.

Tell me, what’s really happening? What’s on your mind and heart? Beyond that, what, who?

:- Doug.