Irritation & Unity
Irritation
tells us of
unity
for here there are two
sharing
the same space
touching
at the place of irritation
united
:- Doug.
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dream only as large as a Dollar bill
If we dream only as large as a Dollar bill or even millions of them, we cannot go higher, larger, farther.
:- Doug.
Never larger than our dreams
We live in a world
never larger than
our dreams
Easy it is
to change our dreams:
dreaming asks only
that we attend
:- Doug.
Who are the idea-inspirers?
Who are the idea makers? Who are the people who inspire others to be idea makers?
:- Doug.
widely see, inclusively play
My job is to think more deeply and widely. My job is to invite others to widely see and inclusively play.
:- Doug.
We need to be about tikkun olam–
We need to be about tikkun olam—
tinkering with,
tickling
the world
:- Doug.
Now some clouds
Now there are some clouds in the sky—cotton candy puffs which have been pulled apart, and some giant mouth is inhaling them from out of sight.
:- Doug.
Two valid ways to learn
Life entices, demands that we jump in. Some of us are lost in that instant: we from then on kick and stroke and maybe swim just to stay afloat and to keep afloat those we with whom we have surrounded ourselves.
Maybe we will take a few precious moments to roll over and ponder just what our efforts are about, maybe even the curious fact that without our efforts we float.
And so the decades roll by with swells and whitecaps and we might after a time ponder.
Some do in fact figure it out at the start or early.
These are both valid ways to learn about life and how to live it; people who learn from one direction need not disparage people who have learned from another. And if we want to help people learn, we need to remember there are ways different from our own, from what we like and prefer, ways that for those they fit, are better.
:- Doug.
What do we need to live?
What do we need to live? Food, water, air. But we also need freedom to move, to choose. And light! Admit this, at least to ourselves among ourselves: it gives us our size.
:- Doug.
Finding purpose through action
The young man thinks to himself I must find my purpose before I can throw myself into grand actions. The old man has learned this is rubbish, knows that after years of actions great and mostly small, he is no closer to finding his purpose—and if he is one in a thousand he has found his purpose through action. Living of life more often defines purpose than the other way round.
:- Doug.
Blearning
Let’s get on purpose about Blearning. This is Web-learning, which is beyond computers but includes all forms of learning by doing, by mixing with other people.
:- Doug.
Why are we here?
Why are we here?
To make the world larger
To make the world smaller
Larger: more inclusive, more creative, growing
Smaller: knowing, hearing each other, embracing
To make the world smaller
To make the world larger
Why are we here?
:- Doug.
Love this time together
I love this time
Together
Truly joyed
To listen
To the one still voice
Of us
:- Doug.
In these money-short times
In these money-short times
In our money-fied culture
We have as many needs as before
& as many people & resources
To meet the needs as before
Let us then be up & doing
Putting heart and shoulder to
Bringing us together
:- Doug.
What is our duty?
What is our duty? To bring the world to one. Lost as we are among our muddled chaotic thoughts; conflicted as are our peoples pursuing angry selfish ends; running as we are headlong with increasing speed to the edge of the near abyss: to bring the world to one.
Somehow to stifle not our variegated creativity; to encourage our multitude of colors and cultures; to avoid bland sameness and its loss of hope, even to encourage contention and broad differences: to bring the world to one.
Teilhard’s Omega Point. G*d. Unity. Not some Utopian unity, but a dirty, bloody, heart pumping, muscle applying reality: get in the dirt and get it done, remembering that we are the gods, we are the ones for whom we have been waiting: it is all up to us, and it matters!
Muscle and heart-muscle. Nail and tooth and dream. Mud and sky. Us, together.
What is our duty? To bring the world to one.
:- Doug.
These times are good for us
These times are good for us; we know what it is to hurt, to have no work—and to have much work to do—only no one pays. We know what it is to be sick of soul and able only to turn downward our eyes. We know and so we can help. Our hand is needed, with or without money to pay. For why should a nothing—lack of money—stand in our way?
:- Doug.
Write it when you hear it
Write it when you hear it
conceive it
honor, respect
look again
extend
what is in your air
:- Doug.
Words, poems, story, song
They take us to the edge
Then cling to us
—We might go beyond—
Words, poems, story, song
:- Doug.
Storm winds
Storm winds demand our attention
Moderate winds do the work, carry off
The waters of the melting snows
Whispers, to hear, take our effort
:- Doug.
