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The good, the bad, and the possible

:- Doug.

There is more reality confronts us
Than what we have so far experienced

:- Doug.

We have an obligation to
The persons we are birthing
The futures we are bringing forth

:- Doug.

Not only exchanges
Conversing constructs
Perspectives, knowledge, action

:- Doug.

The ways to get action and collaboration are new ways. So it will take sustained engaged hard work thought on our part to create them. We cannot simply mention it once to our presenters. We cannot wind it up, set it off, and forget it. People have not done this before and they need help to pull it off.

:- Doug.

People prefer to sit in the back where they are unseen, unheard—and unengaged.

:- Doug.

Soft, gentle, heart entrances, tunnels.

:- Doug.

Friend, this is a holy sprout. It will grow healthily.

:- Doug.

I want us to ask questions so far unasked. Questions that take all our daring to ask.

:- Doug.

I want us to turn the model around and draw from the people, not pour stuff into their heads.

:- Doug.

I want us to demand reflection.

:- Doug.

If people only move at the breaks, the meeting is broken.

:- Doug.

As much as you would plan out the argument plan out the loving.

:- Doug.

The only way we’re going to change the world is to change South Bend.

:- Doug.

Deep is where tunnels run among us.

:- Doug.

What is our common deeper stuff?

:- Doug.

The common deeper stuff
Is here for finding
In each other

:- Doug.

Blue sky behind
White cloud behind
Burnt-Orange leaves-in-bud
Unexpectedly colored is life
Sacred seeing me

:- Doug.

The white horse next door is prancing about from side to side, tail held high, lots of energy, running now with the other horses, the definition of frisky.

:- Doug.

Still want the word for the image: the water turning over in the boiling pot; the clouds getting larger in the face of the wind; the smoke rolling out of the fire.

:- Doug.

We are moving along. Moving life along towards life. Some days we move it the wrong direction. But that’s why there are so many of us: to see the better directions and speak.

:- Doug.

These days I want soft, gentle, small, humble, human. So clouds blending into one another gathers-in my heart. Everything is sacred. All making better starts with a small group of friends, and the second friend is as important as the first.

:- Doug.

Life is small details
Life is grand flow
Mostly—entirely—sacred

:- Doug.