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Invite people to be heard.

:- Doug.

Dance your jig till the band goes home.

:- Doug.

Better to aggress than regress
Better address than redress

:- Doug.

What makes life life if you have to spend some of your days in a nursing home?

:- Doug.

So much we pray
Fill me
Fill me with what I want
Fill me with you
What if we prayed
Empty me?

My heaviest element is me
What if I became light
And empty as
Gossamer?

:- Doug.

If we see our direction our journey can be more decisive.

:- Doug.

Can we get a world accent? Have we opened the way we speak—our very selves—to all?

:- Doug.

Cracking my shell—will you help?

:- Doug.

I’m providing opportunity to crack out of our (collective) shell.

:- Doug.

My mind does not sit still
It is not made to sit still
Someone says we are incapable
And still
We
Are not incapable
Our minds—intellectual, analyzing
Are incapable
Of heart things
& of the whole
Yet
We
Our hearts
& especially our Whole
Is capable
We are only incapable
When we don’t get out
Of our—Whole’s—way
Be still and know
Than me
Than us
Whole is bigger

:- Doug.

We’re tightly wound
A ribbon of DNA
Inside the inside of the heart
Of an egg
At any point we can choose
Wind tightly
(We hope to keep the fear out)
Or open
(To let the love out—and in)
Someday we
Crack!
(Then we can fly)
& touch the world
Whole!

:- Doug.

I pray
Empty me of myself
Open me
Open us
Open

:- Doug.

Read not a poem
Go inside
Poem
Poet
From here
Experience

:- Doug.

In conversation, people can reach the point where they deeply sense that for which they are there. We may not be able to invite such times, but we can open space for them.

:- Doug.

Let’s go toward the source.

:- Doug.

Systemic: when we have a systemic issue, how do we address it? Yesterday at the meeting I brought up that some of the problems we were seeing were systemic. That is like a cue word to say there is nothing we can do about that—it is too large for us or our current inquiry—so let’s move on to what we can tackle. But if what I am seeing is right, we are the system and we can tackle it. It means we have to work on a different leverage point. The leverage point is the blind spot, the place we do not see: how we see ourselves in (not society but) the holomovement. The meta-movement.

The meta-movement: the movement of moving. There are lots of things moving, but the current of these is what we do not see. We can turn our attention here as much as we can turn it to putting gas in the car. It is harder mental and being-level work. It threatens our self- and societal-concept.

Yet key is the fact that we are creating the current and the swirls and the flows by our very movement. Everybody is, so there are almost 7 billion of us creating our swirls and flows, some larger or stronger than others.

So, do we have any choice in what swirls we make? Can we affect how other people see the world, relate to us? Can we promote love and life, fear and death? Can we choose?

:- Doug.

In the deepest sources, in the deepest waters, life. It is the test of what is good and what is not. If the fruit of some movement, say reactionary or fundamentalist is not life, then we know it is not a tree we want to keep. Cut it up for firewood.

What are the fruits? Are they life and love? If not, then I do not care to give them my life and love.

:- Doug.

Stand in the face
In the hearing
Our highest us
Spoken by the moving

:- Doug.

We’re giving each other the tools to repair the earth. Will we start work? In time?

:- Doug.

I’m at the point in life where I see less value in technical expertise. It is only the starting point. Head is great, but we need to realize it is not all there is about us. We have Heart, and we have Hands, but we also have about Us—those around us—and Poet and Wholeness.

:- Doug.

Complexity
Demands of us
Wholeness
For as it goes it
Weaves us
If we just had a
Capacity
Complex enough to
Match
We do
It is the whole
Of us
Of our milieu
Of the whole

:- Doug.

Practice the possibility of people.

:- Doug.

I’m a Weaver—a Word Weaver, a People Weaver, a Conversation Weaver, a Text Weaver, a Context Weaver—We are all these Weavers.

:- Doug.