For this budget (of time and talent and passion), how much life can we add to this part of life you care about?
For this budget (of time and talent and passion), how much life can we add to this part of life you care about?
:- Doug.
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Let us carefully pursue and pursue the question: What invitation will…?
Let us carefully pursue and pursue the question: What invitation will bring out the most intense centers in the field?
:- Doug.
We are asking for sacrifice: sacrifice of time and talents to improve the whole. What’s in it for them? Nothing but life….
We are asking for sacrifice: sacrifice of time and talents to improve the whole. What’s in it for them? Nothing but life. Only life. Life for their community. Life for their children and grandchildren. Life for the whole. Maybe some will rub off on them. But that depends on them, and how much they sacrifice of their life.
It is not free. It is costly. It is not givers gain, for the givers who seek gain miss it.
:- Doug.
To give life: this is our job, cut off and throw into the pot, a piece of our life….
To give life: this is our job, our task. We give the life we have to fields surrounding us and those we love. We share, donate, cut off and throw into the pot, a piece of our life. Our individual life. And it comes back to us as life of the whole.
:- Doug.
This is our role as architects of invitation.
The architect (the archi chief, tect builder) has a role: to pay attention, to listen and look for what there is latent, to hear and see what is latent, and to work very diligently to make sure it is brought forth. The work done is the work of the architect and the field of centers. Emphasis on and.
This is our role as architects of invitation.
:- Doug.
what simply matters/about #openspace /….
what simply matters
about opening space
about who and what and why
evoking a ten year journey
graspable threads
sail flaps in the night breeze
there will I go
make land
take a chair
its back’s rounded spokes
fit my hands
as I sit backwards on it
red flaking paint
over what was aquamarine
firm grace
and wearinesses
weights for our limbs
but we did well today
and we shall feel at home
weariness and all
what simply matters
:- Doug.
The joy of living is/the joy of making our space more living/space is alive/….
The joy of living is
the joy of making our space more living
space is alive
space is holy
reverence for space is joy in living
:- Doug.
Estates we see as all about speed—speed to keep us separate—to separate the property which connects us—so we can go on our way.
Estates we see as all about speed—speed to keep us separate—to separate the property which connects us—so we can go on our way.
:- Doug.
Gossamer fibers shooting across space/Where those fibers cross and touch and tie/Is where we meet/….
Not so much the sparkling intersections we
Strands between centers we
New wholeness
Beings between
Gossamer fibers shooting across space
Where those fibers cross and touch and tie
Is where we meet
The chances are about as strong as
Two gossamer filaments touching in all of space-time
When they do, something happens
Something is transformed
The rest of the net feels it
Here may grow gem-bright flashes
Strange it is that there is
Nothing at the ends of the strands:
We nothing
We exist only when
Our shooting filaments cross
We live only in meeting
:- Doug.
Each person must be heard for the group to be alive.
Each person must be heard for the group to be alive.
:- Doug.
You remember who they were/Please remember who they are
You remember who they were
Please remember who they are
:- Doug.
Wholeness extends/From far to….
Wholeness extends
From far to near
From large to small
From thou to I
:- Doug.
Meeting takes place outside measuring/Meeting takes place outside comparison/Meeting takes place outside dichotomies/….
Meeting takes place outside measuring
Meeting takes place outside comparison
Meeting takes place outside dichotomies
Meeting takes place outside time
Meeting takes place outside space
Meeting takes place
Holy takes place outside measuring
Holy takes place outside comparison
Holy takes place outside dichotomies
Holy takes place outside time
Holy takes place outside space
Holy takes place
Meetings are sanctification
We choose
We choose to respect each other,
to treat each other well,
to hear
Holy the meeting
It’s not about magic
It’s about holy
:- Doug.
A meeting is the sanctification and illumination of the lives of those meeting, of life….
Christopher Alexander in The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and The Nature of the Universe, Book Three: A Vision of a Living World, p 438, says something about a room which applies also to meeting. Permit me to rework his words just a little, to say something we all knew before, but had not yet put into words:
A meeting is the sanctification and illumination of the lives of those meeting, of life. It is life made manifest. The meeting, like a cradle or a gathering together of life, is, in its essence, the place of a thousand joys and sorrows, the receptacle of our lives and our children’s lives, the embodiment, in physical order, of what our spirit has been and is becoming.
That is, perhaps, the true purpose of a meeting. It is comfort, but true comfort, an inner spiritual comfort. A comfort of action as well as solitude.
:- Doug.
