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Interlocked times
in impossible numbers
you, absorbed, sit at your task
for hours, not missing the
chunks of your life invested
I, counting hours and minutes
to invoice or go home
and many billions of others
all occupy the same time space
—and birth each other

:- Doug.

First a speaker tells hearers.
Second all parties share and the group knowledge grows, better decisions are made.
Third something surprising emerges from the conversation, something no one brought, born here, or discovered among us.

Hydrogen breathes on oxygen, and again
Oxygen breathes on hydrogen
Not just wind
Not just more wind
Weather, wet weather!

:- Doug.

This is a big world: some days I fly to this frontier, some days another, and other days I prefer to remain within my own close, hearth and home.

:- Doug.

A flowing world, a flowing G, events more than things: this is our reality. A bud, a flower, a wilting, a seed: events in a flowing field. A man, a woman, a baby, a flowering, a departing the stage: a scene in the comedy. Each actor, each flower, each seed necessary, bringing forth and brought forth by the play. Every emotion, every interaction necessary, the very elements of the entire. One. Flux. Good.

:- Doug.

Branded by the mark of
Radical uncertainty
Are we
This is our hope

:- Doug.

The You we call G is larger than that. Any that.

:- Doug.

We have an inability to perceive something outside our experience: that explains why sometimes people cannot buy our arguments.

:- Doug.

The world is in one conversation
The All There Is is that conversation
The All There Is is one conversation
What then if this be true?
A meta-conversation?

:- Doug.

Alive is conversation
Unfolding what it touches
Finding and creating worlds
Drawing in pulsing events
Tugging the sidereal
Moving, flowing, rocking
Birthing humanity!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1357

Where you stand affects what you see.

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There is only one conversation
& you can be in it
& you’re already in it
& you’re invited!

:- Doug.

Intent is not a How
It is a Way
One gives you the means
to getting your desire
the other gives you a path
for accepting what emerges
for that intent
from a possibility field
larger than your imagination
Intent is going to the dance
without know
to what songs you’ll dance
nor with whom
—and still having a good time!

:- Doug.

Inviting, Imagining, In-gathering
I am

:- Doug.

Time there is that’s quantified
—a quarter to three
—in 7 minutes
—a race is run in under 10 seconds
Time there is that is known in its quality
—absorption time
—boredom time
—15 minutes till quitting time

:- Doug.

The answer
lies far
many times
from where
we’re looking

:- Doug.

Babies are born, grow, die
the family of life goes on
safety and security
—endurance
is in change & movement & growth

:- Doug.

If the downtown
& businesses will prosper
from a new traffic flow
& if the city has few funds for it
then invite
Invite the businesses who’d profit
to contribute, to donate, for the project
those who benefit contribute
those who cannot benefit don’t

:- Doug.

So if we are now in the great perturbance
ought we to shush and pat each other’s backs
or push us over the edge?

:- Doug.

The babe cries
the young child babbles
the colt walks tottering
life ever & always
reaches to touch
and we
speak & write & go

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1356

Jesus imagined people better than they saw themselves. And told them about it. Miracles followed. He said we can do at least as much.

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Friend, into Your Surprising Conversing Now!

:- Doug.

We joke that Life is what happens when you are making other plans, Prepare to be surprised, Whatever happens is the only thing that could. We are surprised to find we are loved. Geniuses are the ones who surprise us. So here’s to surprise! And here’s to seeking it out! At the most inopportune times!

:- Doug.

I saw that surprise—novelty, invention, quantum leaps, growth, death, birth—are the essence of the world. Stasis is death. Death is stasis. We know something is alive when it kicks. So I ought love surprise, seek it out!

:- Doug.