Archive for September, 2014

Leading: hand in hand

Holy work. Leading people out. Because here it is where we co-enlarge the world, the world us. Like two kids leap-frogging over each other, or progressing down the road hand in hand.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 30th, 2014 | No Comments »

We cannot know whether to others

We cannot know whether to others
Our life will have meaning
But we can chance to live with meaning

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 30th, 2014 | No Comments »

Where does your heart go?

Where does your heart go?
Here is our life

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 30th, 2014 | No Comments »

Prayer is a risk

Life is a risk
Prayer is a risk
Risky too is not praying, not risking

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 30th, 2014 | No Comments »

Our holy work is to

Our holy work is to expand worlds: of individuals and families facing tough long-term care decisions, and of communities wanting to be communities.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 29th, 2014 | No Comments »

Can we utter our best thoughts?

Can we utter our best thoughts?
We must first know them!
& before that figure out how to think

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 29th, 2014 | No Comments »

Sustaining change is an oxymoron

Sustaining change is an oxymoron.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 29th, 2014 | No Comments »

My storytelling:

My storytelling: Ask my grandchildren What color is her hair? Gold as the what? What special ability does she have? What is she shy about? What reason does she have to leave her home this day? Whom does she meet next?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 29th, 2014 | No Comments »

Ways to talk about creativity

I want to find some ways to talk with people about creativity. This is part of the larger. Storytelling, craft work, handiwork: all of these things can draw people into themselves and thereby out into the larger.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 29th, 2014 | No Comments »

I’m not throwing away my life

I’m not throwing away my life. Only your picture of it.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 28th, 2014 | No Comments »

When did the meeting end?

When did the meeting end? When we were all satisfied. Sometimes when we were all frustrated. But did it end too soon? Could we have gotten more creative? Larger? Encountered more of our vulnerability and collaboration? Did it end only because we got tired or relaxed?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 28th, 2014 | No Comments »

energy from giving energy

I get energy from giving energy.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 28th, 2014 | No Comments »

time to explore

I am so busy I don’t take time to explore.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 28th, 2014 | No Comments »

A book that speaks to my big question

Do I mysteriously run into a book that speaks to the big question I have been asking, or do I ask that question of whatever I happen to be reading?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 28th, 2014 | No Comments »

Your terms of life

Are you living in this place on its terms or yours? Are you still creating your terms of life?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 27th, 2014 | No Comments »

What do you like to do?

What do you like to do? Have you tried anything new in the last decade? Painting, poetry, pottery? What keeps your spirit young?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 27th, 2014 | No Comments »

It’s not a risk to change your life

It’s not a risk to change your life for something you want to accomplish or for a cause. It is life. Pour yours out for the greater value given not returned.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 27th, 2014 | No Comments »

If we could travel to the stars

If we could travel to the stars and when our grandchildren in the 17th generation reached the place, the stars might not be there any more. For what we see as the stars is the light of eons ago, a thread that might just have an other end.

And who are we to our 17th generation grandchildren—the light long since gone out?

And who are they to us—our eternal light still burning?

And what did we do way back today for them? We might not launch that star journey, but our days, every day, launch something. We choose. Or not.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 27th, 2014 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1455–9-year-olds, 3-year-olds

Footprints in the Windsm # 1455

If some people who have trouble thinking are in some ways regressing, then what activities do we give to 9-year-olds, 3-year-olds? Could those things bring pleasure to some of our elders, help them feel engaged, heard, and touched?

If this has a fraction of truth in it, then let us examine our role too: we, their children now become their teachers, have to move beyond thinking there is a norm for where they should be. Where they are, what they are experiencing is the norm and if they do not meet what we thought, it is our shoulds which must change, for they are only where they are and lack the power to change that. We have the power to change. For now. Someday we too….

So we might move into their world and experience the awe, wonder, and fright of it all. We have the skills to take them by the hand and make it feel as good as it can.

For them. And in doing so, for us.

This then is the bringing together. Around the now, and the here. This bringing together is leading out to the larger more humane world.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on September 27th, 2014 | No Comments »

Thinking backwards

Thinking backwards is called remembering.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 27th, 2014 | No Comments »

What opens us?

What opens us, brings us together?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 26th, 2014 | No Comments »

What is holy?

What is holy about my work?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 26th, 2014 | No Comments »

My practice is a sacred practice

My practice is a sacred practice.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 26th, 2014 | No Comments »
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