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When you peel and peel
Do you for ever get
Onion?

:- Doug.

Which is better?
Is meaningless
Do they all express?

:- Doug.

May we call it Alzheimer’s Development?

:- Doug.

Poetry is possibility?
is limits?
guessing births?
meeting infinity?
transcending self?

:- Doug.

Are you willing to think new and verboten thoughts?

:- Doug.

G is also

:- Doug.

Dentist office waiting room mother
showing child a drawing toy
together shaping creating the man in the boy

:- Doug.

Maybe Alzheimer’s is not a disease
A stage of human development
Beyond

:- Doug.

O redbud color shape
indeterminate
like you the larger pointing

:- Doug.

In light of our mission statement, how ought we to do the conference?

:- Doug.

In the night we see the stars
In the light obliterated

:- Doug.

Suggestive the larger realm….

:- Doug.

Muddles, unclarity, lostnesses
rouse my faculties
imagining exploring inventing
inexplicit
leads me out

:- Doug.

~, promising
night, absencing tangibles
light, imagining larger

:- Doug.

My inability to word
Is a promise
I am moved by something than me larger

:- Doug.

When you turn to considering the question then the turning has begun.

:- Doug.

I don’t want to care (and I don’t) what you say—my ownership is done when I ask you the question.

:- Doug.

What would you most like to come from this conference?

:- Doug.

What is the larger gift this conference should offer this community?

:- Doug.

We are only going part way on our path if we do not lead out to action.

:- Doug.

What would you like to see come out of our conference? Can it make a better South Bend—on purpose?

:- Doug.

We bring people into a physical space called a conference room, into a mental and psychological space called this speaker’s story, in the hopes it will bring them into the pace of collaboration and action. Can we make our hopes more likely to be realized?

:- Doug.

Why do we choose this speaker? What do we expect to come of this time? What story do they bring?

:- Doug.