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We stand at the edge, having come here feeling our way. We peer over the edge into the unknown, fearing and loving in a confused mix. We look back over our safe past…but never was it safe, was it? We came through our species’ childhood in caves with crawly things and around fires to keep the howling at bay. We came to our youth of creating commerce…and slaves and wars. We have learned…but what have we learned? Is there a place for peace, a place for love, a place for a world each one of us—and all of us together—wants? What do we see? What can we see? For this abyss we stare into is our own eyes. Can we see? What do we want to see? Will we see in time—you and I?

:- Doug.

Many a How is Hollow. The dominant culture is dominance. That dominance is empty, too.

:- Doug.

Organizing is of the reason, the straight line, the do. It follows vision or it wanders aimlessly claiming to aim but having none. This is why Peter Bloch says The Answer to How is Yes: we need to find a Yes, a vision, a prophecy, before we get to How, or our How is Hollow.

:- Doug.

In order to consciously evolve, we need to imagine that toward which we unfold.

:- Doug.

We stand on the brink of imagination
To walk forward
creates lives loves
Who hesitates
dies kills evaporates

:- Doug.

First vision, then action: contraries dancing with one another. Without vision, action is empty; without action, vision is empty: vision and action fill one another.

:- Doug.

We can all be prophets, forth-telling the future—if we go on so, we get so. We can tell of a new Heaven and a new Earth, the one we all want to see.

This is love, to make a world we all want.

:- Doug.

We have progressed from nothing to blind existence to blind sight; now we stand ready to vision. Can we dare to leap?

:- Doug.

We did not have the sight to see in previous eons, now we see. We see what we did this last century: killing, enslaving, dehumanizing. Now we have the choice to imagine a better world.

:- Doug.

We see, now can we imagine.

:- Doug.

We be to love

:- Doug.

Only people can visualize
Titles cannot
Only people can meet
Corporations cannot
Only people can make peace
Governments cannot
Only people can imagine
Only we

:- Doug.

We were not & now we are
We were seed & now we live
We were blind & now we see
We now see & stand before imagine
Now can we—what can we do?

:- Doug.

Don’t buy your charity
Holding back your body and your soul
With a bargain for your life
Give your all

:- Doug.

What makes us real is our divine vision
What makes G*d and any artist eternal is
the artist’s divine vision
expressed in the totality of the artist’s creation
Vision alone cannot create
—It must first meet
—After meet, create
Vision—fertile ground—meet
G*d the mix the weave the meet
Human needs human to create
G*d did not create before man
Once G*d met G*d in man, creating!

:- Doug.

Take charge for the world.

:- Doug.

We gather ordinary people to take charge for the world.

:- Doug.

Who would have gotten to frog from tadpole thinking?

:- Doug.

Not We shall overcome
Rather We shall be heard
We shall help people get heard

:- Doug.

This bothers me…does it bother you?

Everyday Diplomacy and picture taking

:- Doug.

If you persist
in seeing others as other
soon your ultimate other
will be G*d

:- Doug.

We seek to bind G*d’s grace
To give us health or wealth
Or retribution
We’ve only bound ourselves so small

We try to bind G*d’s grace
Along this path or that
We only bind imagination
And so we bind ourselves

:- Doug.