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Too much light
clarity hides
four other senses
nuances
peripheral perception
intuit
subtle emerging
blunders blinders
blanks blurs
falters reversals
reality
allow await
tranquil
empty
together!

:- Doug.

Do you dare exclude any good ideas? Any fact that may help? Get it all in the room and dealt with.

:- Doug.

In order to “sell” OS you must first put aside the idea of its magic.

:- Doug.

What’s your big work in the world? What are you doing toward it? Today?

:- Doug.

The great conversation is ever between despair and possibility, smallness and grandeur, sin and redemption, shrinking and expanding. Humanity touches both earth and the heavens: we have the capacity for both compassion and flight.

:- Doug.

To meet
To transform

:- Doug.

When we call in the experts and they are not us, then we are saying We are weaklings, we are unable, come save us! When we strike out at others and sell drugs and steal, then we are saying We are frustrated, there is nothing ordinary we can do, we want you to suffer too, because we are weaklings, we are unable, and you would not come and save us!

No, it is not simply saying we have in the room the best heads: it is saying What vision can we have? What is possible? For if we can imagine, we can work toward that, and something better is possible. If we will not give our hearts and heads to visioning us, then there is no hope.

But we know there is hope, or none of us would be working.

:- Doug.

Our visions are too small
dead crumpled bills
to spend upon trinkets
—dreary crumpled dyings—
we could for the same cost
—but not investment—
have a new earth

:- Doug.

What is it you want me to do? the believer cries—
What is it you must do? in reply G*d cries.

:- Doug.

In conversation, we are inviting more to emerge. We are finite, the more is otherwise. What is possible if we meet G*d? What is the product of infinity times finite squared?

:- Doug.

Sin, missing the mark is a blessing. Sin more greatly then! But do it consciously, notice where the sin takes you, what and whom you meet. Work it out for good. For this time and place. Then go out of your way. Jesus wiped away our sins because he showed us they don’t matter and they do matter. They don’t matter to worry about, to feel guilty and anxious about. They do matter because without them we do not progress, the kingdom is slowed. Do not fear: sin more greatly!

:- Doug.

We are not nouns. We are not even verbs. We are adjectives: we modify and change each other and what we thought were our selves. The way to do that is to be present—in time and place—going out of our way, place and time.

:- Doug.

Love is present. Love goes out of the ways to be present. Goes out of its way and out of the way.

:- Doug.

No one of us has the answers; together something beyond the inter-triggering of all of us can show up—in his breath.

:- Doug.

To our good friends–

Yesterday I took a fast from words: no speaking them; no hearing them; no reading; no writing; and hardest of all, no thinking them. When I first started, as I was going to bed Friday night, there was fire! from 1 am till about 5 am. Images, sounds, movements came flying. It seemed that the words had been getting in the way: in the way of G*d and people and the universe. There is certainly more out there to meet than words, and getting them out of the way opened the floodgates for this fire.

:- Doug.

You have come to bring fire—and with it light and heat.

:- Doug.

People want to be whole, complete. So: they have needs in at least three broad categories: beauty, truth, goodness. If the conversation seems stuck, or even if it does not, it is good to see if all three are fulfilled for the persons taking part.

We ask the three questions and see if we have delved as deeply as we have energy for today: What is the meaning of all this? (truth) What can we do? (goodness) What is the reality, once we have stripped away all the static? (truth) How does it all fit? (beauty) What is our role? (beauty)

:- Doug.

What do you see as some of the issues that make up the immigration crisis, worldwide?

Predatory renting
Predatory lending
Predatory retailing
Predatory hiring
Education about safety, language, ways of living
Coyotes
Health of our communities
Work that needs doing
Legality
Not like us
Economy differences
Fear and hiding
Citizenship
Families kept together, nurtured
Keeping out unwanted and unsafe—terrorists, unhealthy, criminal
Added diversity and creativity
Sharing liberty and abundance
Making a larger pie
What others do you see?

:- Doug.

Truth : meaning : Father : information : face : Jahwist : windows
Goodness : power : Son : action : work/turn : Elohist : doors
Beauty : feeling : Spirit : sorting : swirl : Wisdom : skylights

:- Doug.

This is not just my father’s world, it is mine as well, and yours, and our grandchildren’s. What are we going to do about that? How are we going to fulfill our freedom?

:- Doug.

I will not sell; my business is to call together truth, beauty, and goodness.

:- Doug.

G*d does not want to possess us.

:- Doug.

It is the responsibility of the listener to tease out the under-spoken world.

:- Doug.