Who
Who is G*d
G*d is Who
:- Doug.
G*d
Is
Is
G*d
:- Doug.
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Commitment to ongoingness
I see mediation as a commitment to permanence, to on-goingness.
It is not lock-step but walking in a crowd without seeking violence or kicking. It is being polite, emphasis on being. It is walking in the crowd and being smitten with its possibilities, knowing work is involved.
:- Doug.
Not to prevent conflict
The job of the mediator is not to prevent conflict, nor even to eliminate it, but to find ways to have persons meet and live together, in the face of the conflict. I started to write “despite the conflict” but that is too narrow. The conflict is to be respected and encouraged; it is only the turning to violence that is the negative. Violence in fact comes out of the thinking that conflict is bad. In a diverse world, with divers peoples, conflict is not only inevitable, it is good, so we grow.
:- Doug.
We gather, ordinary people
We gather, ordinary people; tap into our perspectives and imaginations; together we make the world better.
:- Doug.
To disorganize the world
To disorganize the world into something better move from herded to heard.
:- Doug.
The difference between meetings and Meeting
The difference between meetings and Meeting is the difference between herded and heard.
:- Doug.
Not just from you
Living comes not just from you
Nor yet from outside
Nor yet from betweens
All
Communion with the universe
:- Doug.
What conversations now?
What conversations that matter are going on now? What are the conversations that could matter?
:- Doug.
No will no was
No will no was only now
Make the change you see
Make it in our Betweens & Amongs
Now!
:- Doug.
Tell me one of your poems
Tell me one of your poems
Is like asking me to paint one of my children
Memory has not the ability
For I do not see or hear
I meet
I am met
:- Doug.
the thing to use
Perhaps perhaps perhaps again
The scoop’s the thing to use
There’s more to life there’s more out there
Than I have lived so far
It’s called engage the other here
The scoop’s the thing to use
:- Doug.
