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In 2000, I prayed earnestly, hard, and many times for Bush to be elected. I feared greatly what might happen if Gore were elected. So I can, if I remember, have compassion for those who fear today.

:- Doug.

What happens in true conversation are not feelings expressed but experiences.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 905

All I can do is be of service to the world.

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You are—
The force who draws us to one another
Meaning
Passion
Expecting
Inviting
Meeting
Facing
Educing

:- Doug.

Don’t make G*d small
with your prayers
Be after G*d’s heart
G*d is nearly adult you know

:- Doug.

Common caring
common purpose
commonly leads to
community

:- Doug.

You let the world be itself and you work subtly. You work through our hands and wings and fins and leaves and needles and seeds and waters and earth. You work through our self-organizing. You are these things: You are; “I AM.”

:- Doug.

Together let us wonder.

:- Doug.

Have faith in an even larger G*d: One who works through all for G*d is the All There Is, and who does not simply wave a magic wand and fix things to our order like a short order cook. G*d works through all and all works out in the end, but seldom on our timetable. Thus, G*d may heal us through death or loss of job or what we call tragedy, making us whole in ways we had not conceived, and not either as a Mr. Fix-it, but as a flow, a river carrying our tears and turning them to ointment for healing the world. A master-weaver gets closer, but a weaver of clouds and rainbows and blue skies and soaring falcons, of songs and dances and crops and wildflowers, of fishes leaping and bugs biting and great and small: weaving, weaving us all and all there is into stardust and big bangs now now now, hearing, being changed, hearing hearing hearing meeting meeting meeting sending sending sending weaving all this and inviting us.

:- Doug.

There is one WE and you are.

:- Doug.

The circle is calling people
to wholeness, roundness—unendingly
Where then is its practicality?
barrier-free conversing;
power in the center, arising;
power racing along the rim;
kindness; completing;
hearing all voices;
nourishing; gathering; including;
creating; birthing; soft strength;
suggesting; conflicting; caring;
planting a we, growing ever larger…
evoking….

:- Doug.

We start off planting
sounds by ones twos & threes
I & Ma & Papa
From these grow words
for things
& then sentences
As our sentences grow
our world grows
from I to things to actions to we
Let us grow paragraphs
inclusive expansive whole
Plant an I, grow a We
Plant a We, grow a …

:- Doug.

What is the net effect of the ‘Net?

:- Doug.

“Nothing happens until
someone sells something”
Actually, nothing happens
until someone cares

:- Doug.

We are about
Conversation with a care

:- Doug.

Do I like, do I care?
I used to tell a story flat
About Herman
A lady asked—to help me—
“Do you like Herman?”
Startled I admitted “No”
“Then you must learn to like Herman
If you want us to”
So if I want to draw out you
& find about what you care
I must like you, love you
Do I like, do I care?

:- Doug.

Let us be together meetingfully.

:- Doug.

Shallow is the failure
to strike to the root
of our setting
the soul of our quandary
It may be digging deep
in the wrong places
or chopping with ax at the ocean

:- Doug.

I once was a child of dreams
But what dreams
& who was I then?
Dimly, dimly seen
I want to recall my self
And then my own image
disappears into foggy mists

What do you care about?
is the central question
asked of us in these times
We have our hearts encrusted
with daily worries and money

It is the question we fear
for it opens our vulnerability
breaks forever our masks
Mostly we fear
setting loose our power
It is the question we love
& we ask it on meeting every one
We fear it leads to hate
We hope it leads to love
For ill risked and good possible

What do you care about?
Is our all-purpose people-opener
In Will conferences
In negotiations
In work life finding our way
It goes to bedrock

Here is energy & owned truth
& responsibility for creating
It is the only question I will ask

:- Doug.

The key to opening space is a small group of beating hearts.

:- Doug.

If you care, you will do the research, you will find the best hearts and heads, you will choose personal responsibility.

:- Doug.

Only those who care will come. Maybe that’s why you will be there.

:- Doug.

Parsifal is a fool, a bumbler
So too, I
So too, we all
Parsifal means to pierce the veil
Even if he has not that consciousness
So too, I
So too, we all
Parsifal lives the questions
What ails thee? Whom does the grail serve?
Are you Parsifal?
So too, I
So too, we all

:- Doug.