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Meaning is samsara
my friend says to me
maybe meaning for me
is not something we add
to what is not there
but really stands for
something hidden
in a time before
what was never there

:- Doug.

No matter what
plays before me
I can see
raising my courage,
I can report,
invite our seeing

:- Doug.

continuum & metamorphosis
life speaks
these two languages as one

:- Doug.

Friend, where will you lead us today? What wonder show to us—of you, of us, of us together?

:- Doug.

Flowing metamorphosis is what the world is about, and is of the nature of God. Change upon change, unfolding, not discontinuous, barely noticed, always toward better, always toward including, growing.

:- Doug.

How may we find our
Initiative?
Is it buried? Lost?
Hidden in plain sight
If we had eyes to see
Between us?
Does initiative come from
Outside
Is it taught to us
Or is it here
Already
Among us?

:- Doug.

:- Doug.

Ripping grey cloths
from over our heads,
poking holes
to allow—
to be part of—
one flow
we are
here & gone & never gone:
woven within

Creation & destruction
life & death
nothing final
flowing metamorphosis
entertain no hope:
this surpasses

:- Doug.

We can only be full
when we are empty
only completely empty
are we completely whole

:- Doug.

Write your last three poems backwards
backwards poems three last your Write
Write your next three poems backwards
sdrawkcab smeop eerht txen ruoy etirW

:- Doug.

Our task is not to pack
knowledge into people’s closets
but their will & imagination
to call out to play

:- Doug.

Will & imagination
mated for life
to create

:- Doug.

I would rather those who came were the right people than that we only fill the room. The right people are those who want to get to work and engage others.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1342

The rains water, the storms add nitrogen
the symphonies play, the fire engines hurry
This world has worked it out pretty well

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I write Wills and gather wills.

:- Doug.

I want to be strong in saying I want to bring to the fore the hearts and minds of the people in the room, and engage them in making this a better community.

:- Doug.

I no longer want to fill the room—I want people to go out of the room and fill the world.

:- Doug.

The gift I bring
—and want to give—
is engaging whole persons

:- Doug.

The closet door we
will open if we are to
be called teachers

:- Doug.

For what do I long
in this work,
at this moment?
(It is larger
—rightly so maybe—
when preparing
than when doing.)
This question can inform
doing, person, uni-verse

:- Doug.

A pot
G is
today
contain
ing pour
ing all

:- Doug.

By an act
we bring it all into us:
we become the center
it all
is us

:- Doug.

There is a cosmic wind blowing
We face it, stand in its midst, deflect it
We welcome, redirect, and cause

:- Doug.