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When we were sane
and even sober
before we drank blood
what did we know
how could we love?

:- Doug.

Flower, tree, fish, fox, human
black brown yellow red pale
one blood flows in our poetry

:- Doug.

Learn me by heart
for I write in blood

:- Doug.

Under the radar
is the way to start conversing
get everyone together
around practical things
give them no hint

:- Doug.

Conversing raises awareness
Creating a level above
That of the conversants

:- Doug.

Do you want to get something done with these people? You owe it to all of you to investigate Open Space Technology.

:- Doug.

The pressure cooker (OST) uses less water (time), focuses the available energy (of all the people), cooks (gets the job done) quicker, than waiting for the pot (things to happen on their own).

:- Doug.

More and more I am seeing that much is to be gained by people together. There is more brainpower, more heart power, more hand power, and therefore more wholeness becomes possible. I am not sure where this is going, but I am seeing a converging being not only advantageous but the direction we are headed. Even appears inexorable.

:- Doug.

What God has joined together
—body and life—
Let no one sunder

:- Doug.

Diverse people
+ heads, hearts, hands
+ all 5 faculties
engaged
all depends on our meaning of together

:- Doug.

Not brains on a stick
be a heart with hands
and to organize, investigate: head

:- Doug.

2 heads know more than one
3 hearts open more than two
8 hands do more than six

:- Doug.

Conversation creates
the 11 o’clock news deadens

:- Doug.

Comes in
through the ears
our beauty, truth, and goodness
When another hears it
out of us

:- Doug.

Just this year
one man is patron
for another’s art
you thought patronage a thousand years dead
they found each other without seeking
when one told the other
his soul’s story

:- Doug.

It’s not your beliefs
that make the world so
rather out of them your constructs

:- Doug.

There is more going on
in a conversation than meets
casual observation
even in chit-chat
we are making confirming
seeking confirmation of
our world

:- Doug.

What you share receives strength
what you hold starves
it has only one provider

:- Doug.

What we see of the world
is part world and part what we call it
and neither alone
then we have a conversation
it changes and reconstructs all that
conversations don’t change the world
we construct our world out of conversations

:- Doug.

A person is a poem through
all the days of prose

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1435

Open your ears to something that
For you reverberates

Such conversations along the way
Are why the journey matters most

Any now we arrive at our setting-out place

Please pass it on.

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Ears do not walk
Towards you
You must work
To get them to listen
Then to get them to hear

:- Doug.

There is a mystic life
Within the daily round
We can live this ground

:- Doug.