Can we go about interviewing each other?
Invitations by chance: Can we go abroad interviewing each other, inviting others to partake? Inviting those who particularly accept to come to a larger conversation?
:- Doug.
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Invitation in the chance encounter:
Invitation in the chance encounter: We need to have open eyes, welcoming eyes, questioning, expecting eyes. Eyes that ask: Friend, what can we be about?
:- Doug.
What if the wild cacophony of views were resource?
What if the wild diversity of views we have of ways to address our economic-climate conundrum, what if this very diversity were a resource and not a problem?
:- Doug.
The costs of upsetting the circadian rhythms?
What are the psychological and sociological costs to this nation, twice yearly, of upsetting the circadian rhythms? What happens to productivity, accident rates, sales of aspirin and other drugs?
:- Doug.
Taking others’ fears / Into yourself / ….
Taking others’ fears
Into yourself
By their hands
Calling them by name
Shows the fears as
Small and Vulnerable
As they are
And our own vulnerability
And in that, we touch
What holds us up
:- Doug.
Who am I?…
Who am I?
A person who
Loves
Seeks to bring happiness
Is a particle and wave
Of G*d
Wants all voices heard
Wants all hands engaged
Wants all hearts touching
The deep
:- Doug.
What in us wants to be heard is the particle of G*d.
What in us wants to be heard is the particle of G*d.
:- Doug.
I am bringing the meeting of God alive into this world. You can do so too.
I am bringing the meeting of God alive into this world. You can do so too.
:- Doug.
My work is for all the community groups here.
My work is for all the community groups here.
:- Doug.
Keep with others: I’m not giving up on you. Why should I give up on you?
Keep with others: I’m not giving up on you. Why should I give up on you?
:- Doug.
Let’s get beyond what we know, so we can expand our love.
Let’s get beyond what we know, so we can expand our love.
:- Doug.
Could it be that we most deeply fear each other?…
Could it be that we most deeply fear each other—our goodness, truth, beauty? Our power, talent, glory?We do.
This is what I am working to overcome with the only thing that will: love.
We have built our community and culture on this fear, and it is precisely this fear that we need to disorganize.
:- Doug.
Invite / Likable people / To do / ….
Invite
Likable people
To do
What they
Most deeply
Want
:- Doug.
I love them because they have, together, more intelligence than I have. Can you…?
I love them because they have, together, more intelligence than I have. Can you love them because they have more intelligence than you?
:- Doug.
It goes the opposite direction from collective….
It is not collective as we might think of it—gathering common pieces from us—but rather it goes the opposite direction—coming from one ground of origin, something which exists apart from us but cannot live without us. It is observable, independent of individuals yet deeply growing in them. This is what deeply pleases the I within and among.
:- Doug.
The exploration to find ways to loosen strings and weights….
Engage others in an exploration to find ways to loosen strings and weights, to free people to do what best they will.
:- Doug.
