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A plan and a goal
From the adventure
Want to betray the pulsing life
To delay our dive
Into our blood

:- Doug.

Today a ladder
Is the metaphor I divine
What do I know?
Does it lead
Into the maw
Or out
Or across the teeth?

:- Doug.

No one wants to tell
Our heart’s desires and plans
To the world before they’re fully formed
And sometimes that’s
Just what we must do
We hold back too long, yes?
For here is our courage
And here our pulsing blood
Will die save we pour it out

:- Doug.

This is what I have discovered
This is what my truth is

:- Doug.

It only takes one other person
To give a soul heart
Find one other, befriend, give, receive

:- Doug.

True life is larger
Than any one life
Though each share in each
When will we discover
The small left behind
Is the road to the larger?

:- Doug.

Give up your will
Writers said
(And here I write Wills
So people can give up
All they possess!)
There is will greedy
To gain the self
And will to leave it behind
The will toward goodness
This lean and expand

:- Doug.

Lives and weaves and grows
All in the world
And then we die again

:- Doug.

Uncertainty is a resource.

:- Doug.

What was your first mystical or numinous experience?

:- Doug.

Your precious energy ante in
Put on the table your long-held truths
Bet your beauty and your goodness
There is no risk: you lose them all
All is safe: all goes in

:- Doug.

Beyond any religion
Gamble away your love and grace
Gamble away you self
Such does not test God
Nor knock at the door of profit

:- Doug.

Consecrated by danger
A new existence
We may seize
Becoming a new species of human
Walking among humanity

:- Doug.

Things as they are
The all there is
Divinity arising

:- Doug.

Shackleton’s perhaps apocryphal ad speaks today for our invitation to conversation: people “wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success.” The last doubtful too.

:- Doug.

Are you working for us, or are you working for you?

:- Doug.

Leaves thin
Touched by a breeze
Reveal patterns
Kaleidoscopic!
Human leaves too

:- Doug.

Friend, into your Journey!

:- Doug.

Open Space invites a journey, invites along open heads, open hearts, open hands.

:- Doug.

The world is doing pretty well
Your life made it over all the bumps
Decade to decade you’re still breathing
Still
You can help

:- Doug.

Into this Spring’s
Foggy, foggy
Do!

:- Doug.

If this round we would succeed
Into an entangled future
—We—
Must proceed

:- Doug.

What grabs the heart of humanity is humanity.

:- Doug.