Archive for January, 2009

Footprints in the Windsm # 926

Footprints in the Windsm # 926

We carry our graves with us
the days of our living
forgetting that graves are empty


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engaged and contributing

Tell me about a time you felt deeply and truly engaged in the world and contributing.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 31st, 2009 | No Comments »

What will happen to all our data?

This is interesting—what will happen over the centuries to all our data? Will we keep storing it to where it will be too much to ever find anything? Will our search methods become better? Will we finally end our dependence on physical storage and somehow store all that in the ether? Will we reach the point where we cut the umbilical cord to all that old data and trust to our ability to create what we need from scratch?

:- Doug.

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A really intriguing question

If someone were to ask you a really intriguing question, what would you like it to be?

:- Doug.

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We are as if computers

We are as if computers wired to a central server: all one organism, and in this case, all is alive.

:- Doug.

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Good is the essential human nature

Good is the essential nature of humanity. There is evil there, to be sure, but the evil is weaker and only a small per centage of our constitution. Perhaps it will never be wiped out entirely, but we are strong enough that we can recognize the stupidity of its self-destructive nature—no growth can come of it. It may even be necessary for us to have as spice or as counterbalance or for wholeness.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 30th, 2009 | No Comments »

Good hearts

Good hearts
& good heads
accomplish much
Now let them be ours

:- Doug.

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People are good

People are good
& we are aiming for good
The struggle between good & evil
proves that good still lives
proves its resiliency
& residence in our hearts

:- Doug.

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What do we mean–Too much time?

What do we mean when we throw around that phrase—too much time on their hands?

Does it mean it is not worthwhile, not even worth anything? Only if you get paid for doing something is it worthwhile? What is the value of art?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 30th, 2009 | No Comments »

Mind!

Mind the earth!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 29th, 2009 | No Comments »

What in the world?

What in the world do we want to do? What is our best?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 29th, 2009 | No Comments »

Find the great heart

To find the great heart
of the people
for us to live within
and from
this is our work

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 29th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 925

Footprints in the Windsm # 925

In my heart’s eye I saw collections of missing pieces walking around: we are full of holes. When we come to light we fit with others we hear the wind blowing through us and experience that our pieces and our missing pieces fill each other, and channel the winds revealing and creating goodness truth and beauty, revealing and creating.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 28th, 2009 | No Comments »

What’s your horizon?

What’s your horizon? How wide a panorama do you see? To whom do you contribute most?

What’s your world work?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 28th, 2009 | No Comments »

The center of compassion

I am not the center of compassion in the world
Nothing there is I must do
G*d in me is
Every loving thing I find I will do

:- Doug.

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To fulfill, we must risk

To be wholly who we are we have to give ourselves out. A stream is not a stream if the water does not flow. To fulfill ourselves, we must risk emptying.

:- Doug.

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You have lived insufficiently

You have lived insufficiently
if you have lived only
for yourself, your family,
your own
you have an obligation
to help a larger us

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 27th, 2009 | No Comments »

Naysayers have an easy job

Naysayers have an easy job. It is always easier to say it cannot be done and cross our arms, than to find a way to plunge our hands in up to the elbows.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 27th, 2009 | No Comments »

Humans need humans

Humans need humans—our hands, our hearts, our voices.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 27th, 2009 | No Comments »

Our responsibility

Our responsibility is both easy and difficult: we must share our persons.

Easy because it is no work because it is us; difficult because we are not used to doing so. But we must do so if we are to progress to the higher places we desire.

This is a responsibility we owe to our grandchildren and our grand-nieces and -nephews. This is a responsibility we owe to the world simply because we are here. The world owes us respect because we are here, but we owe the world and those in it the respect of giving our very selves. This is the bargain we accepted when we accepted birth.

We can make the world better. And not just in small ways. We can increase the level of good of the whole world. Not only can we, but we have the duty to work at this. Results are far from guaranteed to any one of us, but only possibly within the grasp of all of humanity.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 26th, 2009 | No Comments »

No snowflake, melting

No snowflake, melting
Makes a mountain stream

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 26th, 2009 | No Comments »

A tree is not a tree

A tree is not a tree
without the soil
without the rains
without the sun
A human is not human
a person is not a person
without friends
without shared bread
without shared work
without shared dreams

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 26th, 2009 | No Comments »

None alone

No snowflake flies alone.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 25th, 2009 | No Comments »
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