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Meeting is the fun of life
Fun is the meeting of life

:- Doug.

This is serious fun stuff: make fun in earnest.

:- Doug.

The courage to converse is taking me deeper, sparking me.

:- Doug.

People surprise us in meeting. Meeting surprises us too, especially the wider we open to it. Meeting is how divinity comes to us. Meeting is deific stuff.

:- Doug.

At our party last night B said “I hate surprises.” I can remember when I said that, really felt that. Last night I kept my silence, pondering. Hating surprises I will put off to human curmudgeonly feeling: This is taking me away from what I wanted! I pondered that surprises are now to me something good: they betoken creativity and emergence, forms of divinity arising. Destiny arising. A detour that is the main road. Or could be the main road. An invitation.

:- Doug.

There is no how to meeting, there is only meeting, truly meeting, letting down one’s shields, picking up the hem of one’s courage, opening self and sometimes mouth.

:- Doug.

No how
Only meeting

:- Doug.

In dialogue the how
comes after
the meeting

:- Doug.

Dialogue works more
when given more dialogue
and silence

:- Doug.

Dialogue creates
Is not a tool to use
Uses us…well

:- Doug.

Dialogue does
Not need our pushing
It needs us

:- Doug.

Dialogue works
By itself
Through us

:- Doug.

How does life differ in the residential wing of the nursing home from life in the rehabilitative wing?

:- Doug.

Promoting non essential life in nursing homes.

:- Doug.

My life consists in the blessedly non essential.

:- Doug.

I help non essential life go on after nursing home.

:- Doug.

Friend, into your discoveries, holy.

:- Doug.

It was good today to ponder, to let my spirit wander in quest of discoveries.

:- Doug.

It is a delightfully non essential message. Something extra.

:- Doug.

This is important. I have something important to say, to see, to touch. The message is in being touched and speaking it forth. Speaking it for the deific in each of us.

:- Doug.

It’s not that there are some people who like what I like. Rather I have touched and seen something at the core of being human. People need to want to give themselves. It is only together that makes sense of life.

:- Doug.

Gathering for Creative Compassion

:- Doug.

Purposes are the fulfilling of corporate goals. Purposes go beyond goals.

:- Doug.