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This space is our space
This space is their space
This space is always open
This space is always closed
This space is always here for us
Nothing belongs to it
Everything is conceived in it

:- Doug.

Look into your great heart, then move.

:- Doug.

Holy, holy, holy
Other, other, other
Turn your eyes
Look a direction larger
Turn, turn, turn

:- Doug.

Will good!

:- Doug.

‘Tis our desires pull us up the mountain
Yet they cannot do that work till we
Open our mouths to let them out to converse

:- Doug.

Opening space happens in
Our midst
Our reflections
Our essences
Then our betweens

:- Doug.

You can have a great heart here.

:- Doug.

All together
Moving
All together
Creating
All together
How do we choose direction?
One starts moving

:- Doug.

Sustainability keeps our focus on things, the kind of thinking that got us here: Dollars and numbers. We need attention shifted to purposes more living. The advertisers are shifting to human. Let us turn and use them to get to the hearts and minds of their clients. Touch their stories and dreams.

:- Doug.

This writing is my Will.

:- Doug.

We have climbed the foothills
Mastered profits & weapons & physics
Brought humanity under control
Base camp is set, next the ascent
Our higher peaks demand all
Highest strength and ingenuity
Gathering rope piton boot and set out

:- Doug.

What can we sing into existence today?

:- Doug.

The people have capacity to care for themselves
The outside facilitator is better to add nothing
Bring simple bowl, we’ll mix the salad

:- Doug.

You are the reflective moment
Its seed
Fertile

:- Doug.

Want to control
your colleagues, family, spouse?
It cannot be done
Control yourself first
If that works, you can turn to others
In everything withhold your hand
Out of compassion

:- Doug.

There is always a larger space
beyond

:- Doug.

Writing relaxes me
Into the larger
The holy other space

:- Doug.

There is always another
after
I am not thinking of anything to write

:- Doug.

Anything is grist for pondering
A stray thought
A stray cat

:- Doug.

Do people doing mindless jobs
thereby know meditation?
the endless repetitions
like the breath in, breath out?
yes, when they attend

:- Doug.

At the moment our politics swings from extreme to extreme refusing to acknowledge the travels of the pendulum between. Both stops are valuable; both pulls are necessary: the work is done in the movements. Working together is what will keep us, if we do not want to fly apart.

:- Doug.

Help everyone
Serve no one
Serve the one
Hold space
For creating
Each uniquely serves their needs
To me ’tis a mystery loving

:- Doug.

Live in the spiral
and you will never see sides
you may not see all
yet you allow for
possibility

:- Doug.