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Let us hear voices others do not hear.

:- Doug.

Hear us into our world.

:- Doug.

Do not listen!
Do not observe!
Hear
Take in

:- Doug.

We cannot see the wind
Yet can we feel the wind
Prodding, pushing, whistling to
Our old & sacred world
Stilling ourselves we might find
We can be the wind
And be within the wind
Wind that moves this world of worlds

:- Doug.

Healthy roots, healthy tree.

:- Doug.

Dance upon the wind
Dance within the wind
Some steps go & some return—
Some turn left and some spin—
All part of the dance
& yet, & yet, the grace-filled dancer
Exchanges them to suit the ear & eye
& with varied step spins beauty

Humans have five steps deeper
—Probably more—
Notes we play within the winds
Of universes of universes:
I upon It, I with Thou,
Among all us, Poets of the sacred,
Whole-makers

& round we go, & round we go
Spinning the wind
Dancing the wind
Dancing within, with, upon
Our wind

:- Doug.

There is a natural law of constraining multiplicity: We are focused by the constraints that arise in a group who has heard each other. The group brings multiplicity, and these multiplicities act as a constraint on the focus of the group at the same time its spectrum is widened.

:- Doug.

Wouldn’t it be useful if we could find a bigger view of this, make an action that affects it more profoundly, more systemically?

:- Doug.

There is no such thing as a goal, because there is always motion, always another day. We need something larger, something to serve all our days.

:- Doug.

There’s a bigger picture than that.

:- Doug.

Is there a bigger picture to see?

:- Doug.

A goal is a phantom
We cannot stop
Life must live on
Beyond, beneath is
Something larger, lasting

:- Doug.

Let’s do what we’ve not done—connect emerging leaders across organization and subject matter borders.

:- Doug.

I’m an apprentice whole-maker.

:- Doug.

Ours are the eyes of the world—what do we see?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1056

How can we be filled if we are not first emptied?

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There is no goal
No end—no stopping place
No heaven, no hell
All keeps on going
Nor losing weight nor making money
After every soccer goal
There’s another
After every season—another
Only stopping points these are
& what good is stopping
When all is moving?
So once we see there is no goal
For what do we strive?
What has the larger picture
To include all truth
& all horizons?
We shall see, we shall see:
For now we can ask
Is it purpose?

:- Doug.

How do we see with our eyes
When we remember they are
The eyes of the world itself?

:- Doug.

Big talk gathers the 4 winds, then sharpens us into an instrument.

:- Doug.

Friend, it is time to make a decision and get into your dance!

:- Doug.

We have this pet idea that we can put the universe on a leash and lead it around, yet we cannot even lead one dog on a leash!

:- Doug.

We cannot predict where big talk will take us; but we can predict that it will.

:- Doug.

A person heard is a person indeed.

:- Doug.