What can you give?
Can we live in a larger world than ever we have before? What will it take? What can you give? A dream…some sweat…some inviting others to join in?
:- Doug.
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In people is hope
Government is war upon people. Only when it is people is it possible to be peaceful. But always to govern is to restrict and to restrict is to war. Upon something or someone. In people is hope.
:- Doug.
We are living small
We are living small. We are taking up too little space. We need to reach out our arms and our feet and touch more of the world, more of the world’s peoples, be touched by it and them. It would be good that we took up so much of the world’s resources if we were also giving that to the rest of the world. Selflessness is what we need, reaching out and making a larger world.
:- Doug.
The world is larger than we see
The world is larger than we see
Buds on branches of G*d are we
Whose branches are not fixed in place
And for this larger we float free!
:- Doug.
Why we need to change the world
We need change because the world is growing and wants to live. Life seeks change. There is nothing static about life. G*d, being life and living, is all about meeting and changing.
:- Doug.
Thinking is too small
Thinking is too small, limited by what we have thought before. Imagining is even larger, but imagining between and among is the largest we can do. We need to get at least that large.
:- Doug.
as all right all right now
You are to make the world as all right all right now as you can.
:- Doug.
Larger than we know
The world is larger than we know
and ever larger still
So get to work and give our all
:- Doug.
You’ll go crazy
If you spend your whole time thinking of yourself, you’ll go crazy. This differs from letting yourself come through in conversation. The first defines limits and bollixes you; the second opens you out, gives you air & sun & water to grow, proves the real you is larger than your skin & out here between.
:- Doug.
A path that already is
If it’s a path that already is
It’s not the path for you
The world forever needs a path
That’s of a larger hue
:- Doug.
A larger world is smaller too
A larger world is smaller too
In many ways like this
Everybody knows everybody else
And all there is to know
And all there is to learn
Is larger too & smaller too than this
:- Doug.
Barriers do not exist
Barriers do not exist. Not intrinsically. They are not built in to our society. Even if they have been a part of our dominant and dominating culture for 300 or more years. They are something that some of us are doing. To others of us. These others of us, and the many others of us, can choose to make a world without barriers, to include people in, to draw larger circles. Let’s!
:- Doug.
Wide & Here
Wide—as from dreams to star-filled skies
Here—as the splinters in our palms
To us our work—to us theophany
:- Doug.
imagine and make
Life is
not about what you get
nor even what you give
Life is
what all together
imagine and make
:- Doug.
P-I-E
Who needs people to make their project work? More precisely, who needs the PIE of people? Perspective, Imagination and Energy—of ordinary people—is what turns the world.
:- Doug.
The breath, the whisper
Conversation is
The breath upon the wheel
That starts the world a-turning
The whisper on the dandelion
That starts the parasols a-floating
:- Doug.
Seeds for a better community?
What are the conversations that may change this community? What are people talking about that could be seeds for a better community?
:- Doug.
