Bumps into the greater
Misunderstanding—
Mistakes—
Misdirection—
Can be bumps into the greater—
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Today I feel called
Today I feel called
Far from arguing and proving
To help us together emerge
As Persons and Society
From the waters of hate
To the crisp air
Of Larger, Wholer
:- Doug.
We are all hearing challenged
We are all hearing challenged
—Challenged to hear others
—Challenged to hear ourselves
—Challenged to be heard
:- Doug.
Say more than it says
This I want to say more than it says
Say more than you say
Say more than you hear
:- Doug.
The touch of hand on hand
The touch of hand on hand means something more than galvanic response. Drawing up a chair and sitting next to another mean more than physical, although that is necessary, too.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 835
Footprints in the Windsm # 835
We too are words made flesh
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to listen, to hear, for sure, but also
I see that you bring, say, your corporation-mind and I bring my creativity and human-seeking mind; I am not hear to fight you but to help form you so that corporations everywhere can get more creative and human.
Our response-ability is to listen, and hear, for sure, but also to evolve the species.
:- Doug.
More than answer mine
More than answer mine
Your comments tell me
Who you are and
How you think and
How we might touch
:- Doug.
Creating persons–responsibility?
Since we create a person in meeting, what then is our responsibility?
:- Doug.
An opening secret
“In the present lies hidden what can become.” (Maurice Friedman in Martin Buber, The Knowledge of Man, p 39) We therefore have an opening secret which we want to become known: people have potential, and much of it is in the between.
:- Doug.
Emergence of Persons
We are more about the
Emergence
of Persons
Than doings
For doings end
Ever Persons
Can do
From what submergence
Emerge?
Bending the knee
Breaking the back
Saving & spending
Getting & hoarding
Yawning
To what air
Does Person emerge?
Standing over against
This world
Meeting
Demanding
Its best
:- Doug.
Still: here it is we are strongest
We are up-tight
We don’t know how to converse
About matters at
Our core
We are scared
We fear
We may be found out
Our beliefs exposed
Still: here it is we are strongest
Most alive
In our vulnerability
In us
:- Doug.
Some of us write novels
Some of us write novels
Some of us write poems
Some of us write how-to
Some of us read
Some of us converse
The highest of these is
Intercourse
:- Doug.
Motivating vision
When we move to touching each other and relating, then we have a motivating vision, for it moves us outside of ourselves. Motivation inward leads only to rot; motivation outward leads to growth.
:- Doug.
Person-izing personalizing
Person-izing G*d can lead us astray; personalizing G*d is true. G*d: as wide as the East; as personal as the West.
:- Doug.
