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My grandmother plaited her hair
Never the same, always beauty
Now I live among complex adaptive structures

:- Doug.

As well there is joy
in not knowing
we love the tricksters

:- Doug.

“Rodeo chicken” the sign read
Don’t this just get your mind workin’?
“If you can get the saddle on ’em
—nothin’ fer greenhorns to try—
yer in fer a ride!”
“Git along, little chickie”
“Barrel race on a chicken—
now that’ll test your mettle!”
“They ain’t easy to lasso,
and harder to tie their legs together.”

:- Doug.

Tugging at your sleeve
—your heart’s sleeve—
too well you know this insistent yank.
“What I’d like to change
about this place is to help the….”
You may say this out loud
or only to yourself:
either way, this is your profound love
your way to serve
this old world
Here is your responsibility.

:- Doug.

To do more in your group
Put meet on the bones!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1390

To criticize, to analyze
is to squint your eyes
and so your soul
to see less and less
but if we look in the direction
of what is marvelous
larger
we open ourselves
and might see
under the hide of things

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Strangers around the circle!
Strangeness in what they say!
Wait! What about…, what if…?

I grow!
Something emerges among us!
The world shifts!

An hour passes….

Friends around the circle!
Friendliness, agreeable things said!
Wait! Our thoughts rein me in.

Reining in can be for my good
I might step off a cliff
I might not see a helpful taboo

So how to meet our group well?

First, first! Open the spigot:
Let the water in, washing, quenching:
Drink it in soul deep, assimilate!

Later observe, be impartial.
Later still, discern.
Still, that is not all….

:- Doug.

One world
And we a part of it
We for what we love responsible

:- Doug.

“The old guard will always be here for us.”
“Of course! Thus it always was
Thus it ever will be.

“Only now, we are the old guard
It falls to us
As it will fall to the next ones
And we bring forth the older, faithfully
From our memory
Folding in our best.”

:- Doug.

Let us do
what we love
for the whole

:- Doug.

We assess our life’s value
by the ratio of what we attempt
to what we didn’t
It is infinitely less important
what we achieve

:- Doug.

Everything is not already there
Here is our hope

:- Doug.

People who turn to force
Are frustrated
By their lack of power

Applying force blocks
Themselves from
Thinking of a better way

MNCs with big checkbooks
Overpower government agendas
Greed holds back corporations too

:- Doug.

I cannot answer your questions. I can only address them. Only you can answer your questions. You take in what I give you, adjust its fit and assimilate into yourself only what fits for you.

:- Doug.

Today walk
Around the
Inside of the Inside

:- Doug.

Conversing each other we explore
Exploring we lay down paths before our feet
Feet and paths which otherwise would not live

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1389

Inviting ever inviting
Our spirits for growth
As our bodies food
Need diversity
Even conflict

Conflict is but a track
In the wilderness
Nearby, watching,
That great she-bear,
Complexity

And we her cubs

Screaming, anger, terrorism:
Not the birth-pangs of our new peace
But of complexity
A likely story
Inviting ever inviting

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Thousands, thousands
The snow flakes
A block of ice in my eave
Water running
A humid sweaty summer day
Mice and bugs invading my house
Can you see the shapes of G?

:- Doug.

Let go it is said
Let God
This means more
To me than before
Let G shift shapes
Love all in novel
Ways we wouldn’t
Allow

:- Doug.

My work is heart-work.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1388

Your life is a
shining example
to others!

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Steiner writes of thinking and feeling as twin aspects of being human. Thinking connects us with and pulls us toward the whole; feeling tells us we are individuals and pulls us into our egos. I hear that love is not a feeling but a chosen, thinking thing.

:- Doug.

See something more.

:- Doug.