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Do you think you are world-class?
Actually you should
Actually you are

:- Doug.

Enter the dangerous conversation
All conversation is dangerous
To information, knowledge, status, and power

:- Doug.

Holy is adjective. Holy is as holy does to.

:- Doug.

Sharing food, stories, and art is a way to express the ineffable. It is the ancient way; it is the primal way; it is the timelessly fresh way.

:- Doug.

The weaving, the modifying us and others and our environment: these are life more than the bodies moved by these actions.

:- Doug.

All we are is adjectives.

:- Doug.

Living systems are conversant systems.

:- Doug.

To live is to converse.

:- Doug.

Conversing is cognizing is living is adjectivizing.

:- Doug.

Webs emerge from spider
already tracks of history
now is
your weaving
and
my weaving
always and

:- Doug.

See that web
you’re looking the wrong direction
to focus on threads
betweens are blessedly inessential
webbing acting ephemerally (TGB)

:- Doug.

Is no “is”
only bringing forth

:- Doug.

How confining it must be
To be trapped inside a box
Called “God”

:- Doug.

There are world-class exemplars
Inside every building
We miss seeing them
They are so common
And shy

:- Doug.

Sharing of food
Gathered us by the fire
To tell stories
And create art
Here the ineffable words
to speak forth mystery
Food story art

:- Doug.

If you had 5 minutes left in your life—and you couldn’t leave work—what would you do?

:- Doug.

No divinity
But in “things:”
Context, participating

:- Doug.

What would you do if you could? Why don’t we see to it?

:- Doug.

What does chocolate mean to you? What has it meant?

:- Doug.

What would you try if…?

:- Doug.

What new things are people trying out there?

:- Doug.

I write verse
so that we might spin
so that I might turn

:- Doug.

My dream is to invite you out to play
All of you and all of me
Especially the parts with crinkle in the eye
Questions alive!
That might take us to new

:- Doug.