we set fruit
We flower, we leaf, we set fruit
we shed our leaves, our seeds sprout
we wither, we die, we go on
:- Doug.
Archive for June, 2015
A sometimes mistake
We sometimes mistake
the muddle and the detour
for a distraction from real life
:- Doug.
To harness our hirelings
That’s it! That’s it!
We try to put blinders on
To harness minds perchance hearts
Of our hirelings, of ourselves
—to limit—
Beings by nature endowed
Limitless
:- Doug.
Your perspective on collaboration?
What is your perspective on collaboration? Is there anything new and surprising this brings up for you?
:- Doug.
“Jobs” dehumanize
“Jobs” demand bodies
nor minds
nor hearts
“jobs” dehumanize
are politicians speaking
for everybody
for nobody
:- Doug.
any soul-discovering conversations?
Have you had any good conversations—any soul-discovering conversations?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1512–We don’t need to tolerate
Footprints in the Windsm # 1512
We don’t need to tolerate
We need to thoroughly turn
Others
Ourselves
Our togethers
To grow a new living working
Organism
Please pass it on.
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forth our responsibility!
This calls forth our responsibility!
The ability of the universe is in us
:- Doug.
the voice for the soul of this community
I see we can be the voice for the soul of this community.
:- Doug.
Doing the work of the community
I see this conference could be doing the work of the community. I see we could do something profound in all these details.
:- Doug.
It’s in this
It’s not in the subjects
It’s not even in the “name” speakers
They merely get people in the door
It’s in the engaging
:- Doug.
What it takes is what we do
Meeting with clients
calling the plumber
alone trying to figure out something
what it takes is what we do—
engaging life
:- Doug.
Mary Jo died this morning
Mary Jo died this morning
another string is severed
like when my parents died
again and more
we float free
:- Doug.
hearted people we can rely upon
This is a space where we can if we choose build alliances, find like minded and like hearted people we can rely upon, build realities discontinuous from our past.
:- Doug.
