This is about love with work gloves and boots.
This is about love with work gloves and boots.
:- Doug.
Archive for December, 2009
Is the process complete? Is the circle whole?
Is the process complete? Is the circle whole?
:- Doug.
In a world of process, conversation is its primary human dimension.
In a world of process, conversation is its primary human dimension.
:- Doug.
The world is movement and … conversation is its human dimension….
The world is movement and process, traffic, commerce, intercourse, conversation is its human dimension. This is how movement manifests itself—becomes palpable—manipulates the world—among humans.
:- Doug.
We don’t need to make decisions / ….
We don’t need to make decisions
We need to hold ourselves in conversations
:- Doug.
….It seeks to be personal. This something means us: we assimilate each other.
There is something larger here when people meet. There is a spark, a reverberation, a tingling of something deeper than everyday. And still it is of the everyday and seeks to touch and mold the everyday, to make it recognize it as sacred, holy, serious and playful. It sometimes first appears as an us. It seeks to be personal. This something means us: we assimilate each other.
:- Doug.
I invite families to take responsibility for each other.
I invite families to take responsibility for each other.
:- Doug.
Responsibility is unleashed by seeing others who share our passions.
Responsibility is unleashed by seeing others who share our passions.
:- Doug.
In #openspace we are revealing passion, taking responsibility.
In open space we are revealing passion, taking responsibility.
:- Doug.
We do not want access to health care: we want health.
We do not want access to health care: we want health.
:- Doug.
I can’t tell you what I do—because I don’t do it. I can tell you about people leaning in….
I can’t tell you what I do—because I don’t do it. I can tell you about people leaning in, people making plans to do. I can tell you about people reflecting…deeply…. I can tell you about laughter and banter and tears and silence. I can tell you about people rushing to capture it all on flip charts as it spills out of people. I can tell you about people saying “I’ll commit to doing X.” I can tell you about the world turning to rights just a notch in an afternoon.
:- Doug.
Are we truly outside of each other? / What if we admitted to some overlap? / Some enfolding….
Are we truly outside of each other?
What if we admitted to some overlap?
Some enfolding within each other?
Just a little?
How would we be enfolded?
How are we enfolded?
How again?
Are there other dimensions of enfolding?
:- Doug.
….Our whole economy is based upon insecurity—
Pay me, pay me: who will pay me to do this work? Our whole economy is based upon insecurity—the insecurity of rugged individualism that might not be rugged enough, without pay, to support us, to provide food, clothing, shelter, transportation and conversation to us. Could we conceive among us a more open passage of good and help?
:- Doug.
Could we share the care of our elderly parents?
Could we share the care of our elderly parents?
:- Doug.
….what is G*d’s work? Does G*d have to work? Doing what?….
“God’s work in one’s life” is a phrase we see among religious writers—what is G*d’s work? Does G*d have to work? Doing what? How big is G*d and why do we have a role in G*d’s work? Are we somehow essential? Are we part of a larger whole? Are we to make the whole larger? A larger working whole?
:- Doug.
Our inner being is our inner being, the being of the several.
Our inner being is our inner being, the being of the several.
:- Doug.
Be ourselves. Every solitary person is already taken.
Be ourselves. Every solitary person is already taken.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1016: Is all the work done?
Footprints in the Windsm # 1016
Is all the work done? Are all the hungry fed? Are all the voices heard?
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