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It’s not a fallen world
It’s not yet perfect
and it’s moving
Fallen is a story we tell ourselves
a label to explain to our minds
what we see
We can choose to
see love and opportunity
be love and imagination
work together and separately
for a new earth
a new Heaven

:- Doug.

A path through the forest
—the forest’s alive
movement everywhere: the fast flies,
mosquitoes, butterflies, bees
the quick squirrel, chipmunk, deer, fox
the ponderous bear, the slow porcupine and mole
even the composting soil’s alive and moving
working, turning, making heat,
the plants, too are alive and move
turning their blossoms to the sun
or leaves to the rain
and casting their seeds on the winds
or into juicy fruits for animals to carry
yards or miles, so they too travel
just slower, over generations, centuries
all this life stands aside or goes ahead
making a path through the forest
for us
sometimes the path’s only there
in our seeing, not even our looking
for we see with our imagination
and make paths by combining empty places
our path through the forest
is just here, where others have made the way
or are not
it is never lonely for there is life all around
acting in concert—listen!—
unconsciously or consciously

:- Doug.

G*d wants to be heard
G*d wants to hear

:- Doug.

Who matters?

:- Doug.

1. Dreams
2. Giving
3. Stories, pictures, questions
4. Betweens
5. Heard

This is how to spell G*d.

:- Doug.

Ego’s imagined fear gives way
to the imaginative outflowing:
a cornucopia of flavors and tastes
aromas and textures
colors!

:- Doug.

poems ponder us
poems work us
as much as the words
the work of the poem
is the poet
even more than the other way round
and when all is written
is nothing written yet
a door opens

:- Doug.

Conversations that matter with people who matter

:- Doug.

When people meet
imagined differences of ego
fall away in the face of
imaginative differences of truth

:- Doug.

We do not transcend differences
—Why would we ever want to?—
We explore to see how we are woven
and from that we work a tapestry
—living—
to find that tapestries sing, dance, work, and grow

:- Doug.

The higher ground is the common ground.

:- Doug.

What is the best of who we are?

:- Doug.

A child returns home
when an adult
to meet his parents as
persons
—so turning
meets emergence
turns the spiral
into a vortex
up and out

:- Doug.

We need responsible dreamers.

:- Doug.

Volunteer at the top.

:- Doug.

You can tell it is a profound change because it is painfully slow going at the start.

:- Doug.

Receivers of help can be dispensers of help.

:- Doug.

I’m a community disorganizer because what is is not as good as it can get, is it?

:- Doug.

We are not so much the sum of our experiences as the sum of our imaginings.

:- Doug.

Conversation is trusting one another.

:- Doug.

Good starts
Good starts things
When we say Good starts
Ask, For when?

:- Doug.

Change is a glimmer, nudges a groggy hope toward wakefulness, becomes possible, gathers one then two, and soon something is happening: change grows in conversation.

:- Doug.

You haven’t thought it through until you’ve come to the conclusion you’ve exhausted all you can, and that after you have searched all you can.

:- Doug.