American leadership shooting ourselves in the
America’s leadership of the world is based on creativity. Yet our economic engine runs on scarcity. We are in danger of shooting ourselves in the head.
:- Doug.
Archive for January 5th, 2015
The Alamo story, gasping
What are examples of knowing from within? Within contradictions, polarities, conflict, grief, the body, theater, imagination, intimacy? Hearing the Alamo story and being, precisely being, in the Alamo, where these particular real men died. In times of not grasping, simply gasping.
:- Doug.
My antipathy toward goal-setting runs deep
Perhaps my antipathy toward goal-setting runs deeper. Goal-setting is ego-driven, seeing all others as Its. It avoids profound in-taking, soul, and hearing.
:- Doug.
Gaps in our speech
The gaps in our speech—even aphasias—can be invitations to come rest in silence…. What if precisely then we stopped to listen? Both of us? There is a rhythm to weather, the low pressure drawing wind out of the high pressure, the lightning and the sun alternating. Our words, our hearing, too. Come enter the world whole.
:- Doug.
