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I’m in the midst of learning
I’m in the midst of creating
The path I’m walking
Walking our way whole

:- Doug.

The work is not getting the people to work this way; the work is getting the people. This is the work: getting the rhythm going.

:- Doug.

There is something in each of us. This something recognizes the larger whole. It is this something we all seek to tickle.

:- Doug.

My task is to call forth out of people the open togethering I too see in them.

:- Doug.

“Hello!”
Everything that was ever said is
In this greeting
—Seeing—hearing—touching
—Traveling with another these few steps

:- Doug.

A red wheel barrow
A crooked limb
A cracked pot & a crackpot
Every thing has a place in the whole:
Every thing makes the whole

:- Doug.

I do not tell you truth
Truth is what you pull out of what I tell
I tell you my experience

:- Doug.

G*d is process
G*d is all process
All of G*d is process
All process is G*d

:- Doug.

What are the centers, the patterns of my life as a person to person practitioner?

What are the centers, the patterns of your life as a family, which this Will can make more wonderful?

What do you do as a family when two or more of you are together?

:- Doug.

I only know I must throw my whole heart in. I feel like I have been holding back. Why? Money again? Fear of what the “neighbors” will think? Maybe little pieces of these and more. The How question resolves itself around fears. If we had not the fears then we would try one thing or another until we found something that worked. Asking How is simply a way of asking that we be given what we want without risk. Throw my whole heart in.

What to work on—projects or working together—is the same working of fear! I have only so much time and I do not wish to throw it away. That is the wrong way to see. Instead, throw it away! Try something! Find the most important thing and make it wonderful! Do what falls to your hand!

Zheesh! I have such a no mistakes allowed habit! Make more mistakes! Talk to strangers.

Throw my whole heart in!

:- Doug.

People teach themselves
Worlds self organize
Life unfolds wholer

:- Doug.

Make our space wonderful!

:- Doug.

Everything is unique
Every person, every cloud
Fantastically shaped—look and see!
Formed and forming to fit each one’s
Special setting & role
And we—and we!
Have figured out
How to change setting & role

:- Doug.

Making a Will can be enjoyable
Reading a Will can leave us feeling wonderful
It does not have to be a mere off-loading of stuff
But a gift of love, wisdom, life!

:- Doug.

In the 20th century we have come to believe modularity is the answer to everything—both in building hotels with plug in room-boxes, and in our “management” of people and human relations: What works in one setting can be plugged in here to solve all our problems. In the 21st century and beyond we need to recognize uniqueness and cater to its specialness.

:- Doug.

Open a little whole
& throw your heart right in
Life is sure to follow

:- Doug.

A myth is a truth wrapped in a story

:- Doug.

Asking questions to which
None of us has answer
Is the way to
Learn & Free

:- Doug.

→Life is its own process creating life→

:- Doug.

So much depends
upon a red
heart wide open

:- Doug.

Information and knowledge are commodities, easily attainable by ones with a will to do so; just other resources to be acquired along the way, like bricks, mortar, and electricity. The dear substance is that very will—the energy, commitment, and assumption of responsibility to make the project happen. We will do what we will; nothing more. Making things happen consists in announcing that truth and uncovering that will.

:- Doug.

Whatever we learn, we teach ourselves.

:- Doug.

How would we sketch a conversation, its centers, how it moves, transforms, disappears, acquires life and power?

:- Doug.