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How? The only practical answer is love.

:- Doug.

Our calling is to connect who we are with how we do. How do you do your calling in your particular work?

:- Doug.

Education ought to be about giving us as many as possible of the varied opportunities to discover our gifts, loves, and genius, and the vastness of the in betweens of us and others. With these raw materials we can make a world fresh and ever opening. This is truly leading out.

:- Doug.

To quit your job you don’t have to quit, just get on with your calling within your current setting. No need to quit the ostensible world (of work, expectations, goals)—only to get to work in the real one. Do your calling here, now, in this job. Quit thinking of what you are doing as a job and start seeing the opportunities to do your calling within the life you have. You can have no excuse for not doing your calling.

:- Doug.

Big corporations serve, some say
Supplying human needs and creating jobs
But examine:
What do they say is their purpose?
What do they tell shareholders?
What do they tell employees?
What do they measure?
Souls saved?
Freedoms increased?
Families brought together?
People raised out of poverty?
Wealth distributed
Or accumulated?

:- Doug.

What is the soul string
between money & sports?
See all the ads

Is it both seek dominance,
Taking, winning
I can control what “consumers” do
(They are not people like me
Only objects to make me rich)

Or satisfactions of bodily desires
Stretching muscles &
grabbing a beer and steak?

Or is greed at work
One more win is like unto
Getting this expensive car?

Such intimate connections!
Such lovers!
(Or rather one lover
One user)
For one seeks play
The other self-gratification

:- Doug.

Other might mean alien
Or people like us
Or finally seeing our selves
As we seldom see us but really are
—Sacred—
Holy, holy, holy
Other, other, other

:- Doug.

To live is to fit
To love is to respond
To be real is to be flexible

:- Doug.

When we put names on objects and people, we make them smaller than they are.

:- Doug.

Don’t sell: share

:- Doug.

What if God were not high in the sky
but deep beneath our feet
giving us our dancing rhythms?

:- Doug.

Does a poem need to be long? If you have something to say, then find a way to say it concisely whether direct or indirect. And yet, there is sometimes a need to be with for a spell.

:- Doug.

Into the woods I go, in search of you, God and Gods of my spirit. Into the city I go, into the meeting, into the noises, machine made and human made, yelling and screaming and screeching and rumbling, into the lightning I go. Into my head, and my body, into my imagination, into another’s grief and mine, into another’s hopes and ours. Into myself and into another, and in between another and I, and among us all. Sitting still, allowing, being, becoming, not going. In the backwoods and the slums, in the glass and steel towers, in the closets and the public places, in the woods and ponds and skies: these are places, your places, but they do not satisfy. And then comes a touch, a whisper of air.

:- Doug.

Adjective fits you well: you modify.

:- Doug.

The more you use it
The less you lose it
—your mind, your soul, your spirit?

:- Doug.

In the book of life
we each have some chapters
yet no chapter is life’s end
maybe one is the last in which you appear
or maybe you set in motion what comes after
or make meaning of who or what came before
yet all tell this story we share

:- Doug.

Life is busy: that’s what life is about.

:- Doug.

In our politics we steel ourselves
To others by vilifying those
Who think other thoughts
What if we saw ourselves flesh
They no more but friends together we?
What share we in common
But the robin’s call, bright sun
At morning, stormy afternoons,
And desire for our grandchildren’s good?
Those can be our strong enough
Foundations & leaders: we might lift eyes

:- Doug.

The more we grasp
The less we are
We are of the all;
But when we separate
Mine from not mine
When we set goals
To get more mine
Things or skills or knowledge
Beauty, truth or goodness
We separate from
& give up the all
We could have been
Release & we still could be

:- Doug.

Whenever the phone rings
Someone is seeking
Me to walk with them

:- Doug.

Make your soul
to those around you
available
:- Doug.

We desire our employees
to set goals
not because it is good for them
but to put blinders on them
so they serve only us
—so we think—
We desire ourselves
to set goals
to put blinkers on us
that we seek
limited things
& ignore the wonder-filled
whole

:- Doug.

Sin means to be held in the embrace of illusion. If you would be whole find the way to be real.

:- Doug.