It’s in this
It’s not in the subjects
It’s not even in the “name” speakers
They merely get people in the door
It’s in the engaging
:- Doug.
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What it takes is what we do
Meeting with clients
calling the plumber
alone trying to figure out something
what it takes is what we do—
engaging life
:- Doug.
Mary Jo died this morning
Mary Jo died this morning
another string is severed
like when my parents died
again and more
we float free
:- Doug.
hearted people we can rely upon
This is a space where we can if we choose build alliances, find like minded and like hearted people we can rely upon, build realities discontinuous from our past.
:- Doug.
Aligned with their own deeper values
We can be intentional about inviting people to act with caring, authenticity, and responsibility—that is, in ways aligned with their own deeper values.
:- Doug.
A collective reflective
We can be conscious about developing a collective reflective space—a community.
:- Doug.
You help her
O Lord, help her!
You’re there—you help her.
Let’s both help.
Now you’ve got it!
:- Doug.
We fail.
We try to write big. We fail. To write about this crying child’s bleeding dog bite is to write large.
:- Doug.
Doing a larger thing within a constricted environment
It is possible to be doing a larger thing within a constricted environment, as when love holds a dying person and can only wipe a brow, as when a custodian sets down the mop to hold the hand of a distraught patient, as when a parking attendant gives an uplifting word and a silent prayer to a person entering the hospital.
:- Doug.
Our last great speaker
We did not connect the dots for our last great speaker, did not ask people to connect the dots. We just sent them to the next session to hear a different maybe new idea.
:- Doug.
See: our world has no solidity
See: our world has no solidity
…see the little dots flying about?
…inside them littler jots orbiting?
See then: you are participant in the flying
…folding shifting for ever unfolding
…our world
…the field
:- Doug.
Collaboration–we have been passive
Collaboration—we have been passive
—not been connecting the dots
—not been showing the bridges
—not been inviting to build bridges
:- Doug.
a deep flashing bright brown
Today G is orange: a deep flashing bright brown and blood-colored orange.
:- Doug.
not to change the world
Our swirling and muddling can crack and rip the blocks between us. Then we can set forces in motion. Nor forces that change the world, but forces that make the world our world.
:- Doug.
hugeness inside
These people have hugeness, vastness within them. We need to remove the erected walls that separate them, that lock them into ineffectiveness. Call it freedom and democracy if you will but let’s write it large.
:- Doug.
