power tapped with a question
There is power in gathering. There is power in the individual that can be tapped with a question.
:- Doug.
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About what are you fervent?
For what do you have passion for which you are willing to take the responsibility of gathering people? What issue would you post? Where do we need to get together? Why are we not making more progress? In what areas could we be making more progress? Whom can we invite? What are the opportunities?
Why is this important? Who opposes you? Who would disagree, particularly within the environmental movement? Why the urgency? How urgent? What is most urgent? In short, what are the limits of your longing? Where would you go if your longing were allowed to carry you, to flow?
Where is the heat? Where the energy? About what are you fervent?
:- Doug.
Politics is…
Politics is the way we get things done. Let’s invent a new way to get things done.
:- Doug.
bigger than we’ve tried
A faith in God
That we will do our best
Our best is bigger
Than we’ve tried—always
Our best starts when we invite
And accept
:- Doug.
A power in invitation
There is a power in invitation
The power of heart
And Imagination
Of what wants out—of us
Gathering
:- Doug.
Gather our power:
Gather, gather! Gather our power: our people. Get to work. We can make a change, make a difference, help things get better. Is the world perfect, whole, working well for all?
:- Doug.
Let’s get some friends
Let’s get some friends together and see what we
Can do! Let’s invite some strangers, too!
:- Doug.
How urgent? What if we work together?
How important is the environment? How urgent? How much time do we have? What needs to be done? Why are we not doing it?
What if we got to work, together? Who needs to be in on it?
What are they doing?
:- Doug.
Living the life we want
I want to write and invite; I want to live next door to G*d. I just want to get more public. I am living the life I want.
I write and invite; I live next door to G*d. We can all live the life we want: let’s! Let’s write and invite, copiously, greatheartedly, freehandedly, embracingly.
This is the life I want, and still I live: still I strive for something larger. Larger, larger, we always want to be larger, to embrace our families and friends and all they can touch!
:- Doug.
The world is not a problem
The world is not a problem
Our people nothing to be solved
An agglomeration, a mish-mash, a chop suey
Is just what we need to invent medleys
& symphonies & galaxies & strange newnesses
The world is but possibilities
Our peoples power to be loosed
:- Doug.
agglomeration of warty
Open space creates high performing systems out of an agglomeration of warty people.
:- Doug.
Of leaves and clouds
After this life is over I want to spend the first hundred years watching leaves fall from trees in autumn—maple, sycamore, oak, tulip, apple, see them floating down, ride on each leaf as it slides and scoots, dives and floats up on whispers.
The the next hundred years as a cloud, forming, re-forming, shape changing, now cumulus, now cirrus, once in a while stratus, teaming with bacteria and life, now and again nimbus shouting, booming, dark with flashes to wash the earth, feed the plants, & bring people together in hugs.
:- Doug.
To look forward to death…
This is major: death might be something to look forward to, not a graduation to another level, but what? Becoming large as G*d! Becoming vistas, panoramas, oceans, universes, black holes, worm holes in the universe to other universes, galaxies, fecund fields, fierce flowers, playgrounds, more, more, touching, heard.
Becoming love!
:- Doug.
hiring a professional means
When I am hiring a professional,
I am seeking—
Time
Hands
Speed
Skill
Ears
Impartiality
Efficiency
Being heard
Mouth
Wisdom
Larger view
Eyes
Panoramas
Heart
:- Doug.
The ant carries a load
The ant carries a load
Just bigger than the ant
The elephant pulls up the Big Top
The horses in team pull a heavy Stage
The single mule a plow:
Do what you can
What you can is more
Together
:- Doug.
