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People want to do the larger good. Their heart flies out, they want to help. This is much deeper than economic self interest. The second simply is a possible support for the first, but not a necessary one.

:- Doug.

Getting done good things for good people dealing with nursing homes.

:- Doug.

Three steps more:
1. Maybe the mind forces the world into its mold.
2. Maybe the world makes the mold.
3. Maybe it’s all one.
4. What are we to make of it? (It, Thou, Us, Poetry, Making)

Which way go
The ocean’s flows?

:- Doug.

I see something in a new way. It is major and begs exploration. Another thing demands my attention. This is the way the lesser elbows out the greater.

:- Doug.

Truth is bigger than we are ready to receive
Creation is truth
Just look about you in the profligate surfeit
Multiplied by the stories
Told by the seven billion of us
Profligate X Stories =
Truths

:- Doug.

Let us speak of a God larger.

:- Doug.

Wars help the economy
Greedy get richer, richer
Poor are put out of their misery
What’s not to love?

:- Doug.

So profound as to be inexpressible
Exists

:- Doug.

You had to be there times can be common. One way to reliably invite them is opening space. Any place people feel comfortable to be here now is key. One person can invite one. A few can invite a few more.

:- Doug.

We flare up, we flame
for an instant and then
we are snuffed out by a stray breeze
The part of us to live on
is the brightness
or what we are able to light
Maybe our fractal tongue
a generation after next unrecognized flickers in a thousand

:- Doug.

Being open, saying what’s what, explicitly dealing with the rough and tough in how we get along—this is the beginning of an effective client relationship. But eventually it needs to be from both sides.

:- Doug.

Friend, into Your Branching Tree.

:- Doug.

Some poetry
Clambers in the trees
Seeking branching

:- Doug.

Have you included every possible way to know?

:- Doug.

A friend of mine, now deceased, said “Moving! Everything is moving!” Still points do move us, that is the point, maybe, perchance, perhaps. Love is verb, yes? Questions spin around the still point of us, and we reflect, but keep coming back to the center, which has its own force, momentum at rest.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1459

Before you tell all
And tell them the truth
Slant or straight on
Show the difficulties of the proposed way ahead
Why it is easier to ignore
Why the truth is too much effort, and bloody
Then you can ask, Will you dig deeper, do?

Please pass it on.

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I cannot tag each thought I have to a particular event. Nor need I, I suppose: possibility has power.

:- Doug.

Do you think we can move past hate? I have seen it.

:- Doug.

In conversation, people discover what is humanity—and that they still have it

:- Doug.

What is the underlying question of your life?

:- Doug.

Thinking, thinking, thinking
And my left thumb the only remains
After Parkinson’s
Pain too: unbearable, faithful
I am so trapped I do not ask
To whom I can offer my
Thinking, thinking, thinking
This would give purpose to my days:
Offering my counsel to our
Nurses, friends, teens,
Churches, leaders
Or working on some big question
Of philosophy or society
These goods I can do with my
Thinking, thinking, thinking
But I need your help
In this direction to open my
Thinking, thinking, thinking

:- Doug.

Woman, 92,
Strong mind, strong will,
Body visibly frail
Why do we get the disease of
Living too long?

:- Doug.

The capacity we seek:
We already have
and devalue
Is written in a vocabulary
we do not yet possess

:- Doug.