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There is something else which wants for expression this morning, yet is shy. Perhaps if I am still awhile in my heart, you will show yourself.

:- Doug.

Take the leaning path—see where it leads—if you are willing to take responsibility for life. If you are not, the path leans a different direction for you—and that is the direction for which you have chosen responsibility.

:- Doug.

We are the ones for whom we should no longer be waiting—because we are getting to work.

:- Doug.

Who are our out of work people? We have not asked them to help. What if we invited them?

:- Doug.

There is a holy way we know in our hearts and heads to which we need to bring our hands.

:- Doug.

What is your art?
What do you love doing?
What do you do with beauty?

:- Doug.

What do bells mean to you?
Tell me a story about these
bells you’ve never seen before
Tell me about a bell in your life

:- Doug.

I have one inquiry
—Who are you and
Who am I
Together?

:- Doug.

Will someone something
they might throw away
—and tell them
why they might want to keep it
—or tell them they will figure it out
for themselves
—because you might learn
your value
or figure it out
—maybe it will become
a new thing
—in your hands
or theirs

:- Doug.

Life is about what you can give to it.

:- Doug.

Life has it all
—Why throw away any?
Tossing impoverishes
Thrower more than thrown
—What would we miss?
All serve us
We can serve all
Bottom-up, top-down
People like, not like us
Rainbows of colors, notes, dances
Laughter, tears
Light, shimmering darkness
One has many
Use all the rhythms, stories
Hearts
Hands
Heads

:- Doug.

Surprises expand my life
Possibilities complexities
Interweavings conversings
Fresh air fun
Friends companions
Brothers and sisters of heart
So why do I fear surprises?
Control constricts
Surprise opens life

:- Doug.

Tell me—
your favorite story from your life
your theme music
what you laugh about longest, deepest
your questions, your quests
about what you wonder
the complexity of your life
your little-known self

:- Doug.

You play Rocky and I’ll play Bullwinkle—let’s have a conversation about the food we’re eating!

You play Sherlock Holmes and I’ll play Dr Watson—let’s see if we can find the murderer in the room—What clues do you see?

:- Doug.

Unknowing going
Taking me to
Love seeking surprises

:- Doug.

G*d is shape-shifting
Morphing
Never the same twice
Meeting you, meeting me
Changing us, changing G*d
A butterfly’s shadow I see you
But not hold you
In hand heart or mind
Giving life and love and blood
Is changing giver and receiver
And yet, and yet
There is a river
Runs through us all

:- Doug.

People are resilient. People want to help. People are creative. People can and always do find a way through. What if we put all that together? What if we put all us together?

:- Doug.

Ordinary people can do
extraordinary things to make
our world better
We do not have to wait for
someone to do it
for us
we are the
ones for whom we have been
waiting

:- Doug.

Maybe our way can be to imagine radically and invite resonantly.

:- Doug.

An old professor assigned his students to write 10,000 questions. If you couldn’t go home before you were done, what questions would you write? What questions matter to you?

:- Doug.

Some cry “Change the world!” They are right. Some counsel “Do not be attached to outcomes.” They also are right. It is our task to marry the two and produce offspring: We are to meet the world. Not only to accept what it is and how it confronts us, but to meet it and present it with our face set like flint to its steel. Strike! Speak our peace. This is our duty! Then, let the results go. Then, meet the world again in another forum, another day, if it be granted us.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 940

How did I add value to the world in the day just past? How did we?

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When we say we need a leader, what we really need is someone to take responsibility. If all take responsibility, that is better than having a single leader.

:- Doug.