If it weren’t for the mirror….
If it weren’t for the mirror, my image would go on for as long as there was light.
:- Doug.
Archive for December, 2010
…is and always has been how we evolve?….
Is it possible that conversation is and always has been how we evolve? Sometimes well done, sometimes more conscious or less?
:- Doug.
What is this spade?
What is this spade
with which I cut the earth
around my heart
but gently gently
freeing me to expand
my intimacy
to galaxies of hearts
not before known?
:- Doug.
…/Whispering Nay! Nay!/To our This is me
We know how to converse
We rarely take our opportunity
Why? Do we fear?
Here we speak
Deeply
Expansively
Intimately
What is deeply
But that droning gnat
Whispering Nay! Nay!
To our This is me?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1115–called upon to speak by holding our tongues
Footprints in the Windsm # 1115
At times we are called upon to speak by holding our tongues.
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Every day our work is opening and demonstrating opening
Every day the work is opening and demonstrating opening at each step. Opening conversation.
:- Doug.
What if we talked like never before have we dared?
What if we talked like never before have we dared?
:- Doug.
Re-knitting the roots of our community—in the face of fear.
Re-knitting the roots of our community—in the face of fear.
:- Doug.
Family, friends and community: conversation carries us home.
Family, friends and community: conversation carries us home.
:- Doug.
Converse like we never have before and we risk
Converse like we never have before and we risk cutting to the root of our community, our family, our life.
:- Doug.
Every word, every act, is an act of conversation, if
Every word, every act, is an act of conversation, if I so see it, if I so intend. And thus an act of ministry, this ministry.
:- Doug.
If you talk as you never have before….
If you talk as you never have before, you risk creating caring community.
:- Doug.
Caring conversation means a community that’s cooking.
Caring conversation means a community that’s cooking.
:- Doug.
To add dimension and depth to our work….
To add dimension or depth to our work we must seek out and report the contradiction. All is not rosy and the contrary and close and far contradictions (of our work the sister, the polite sister, and the evil sister) are part of the most real. There is a rich shadow side, well worth mining.
:- Doug.
The last robin in autumn…
What are we to do
with the things we do not see
but could?
The last robin in fall?
A hand seeking ours?
The space between us melting?
:- Doug.
It’s important that we talk/…
It’s important that we talk
Since in conversation
We think together
We feel together
We come together
:- Doug.
Love means conflict/…
Love means conflict
& having to say you’re sorry
irritating
as much as
all the rest
you imagined
seeking function in dysfunction
:- Doug.
What do you want for your children’s children’s children, for the world?
What do you want for your children’s children’s children, for the world?
:- Doug.
