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Meeting: space for lightning.

:- Doug.

Open Space is, simply, emergence.

:- Doug.

Once you have declared
Poured yourself in the measureless out-flowing love
The swell carries you along

:- Doug.

Emergence is the work of meeting. Betweens emerge. Or maybe people do. Or ~.

:- Doug.

Prepare to be surprised. How can you do that? Show up. Shields down. Invite. Face. Allow another to engage you. Wait.

:- Doug.

We can strengthen centers
like Alexander does
But maybe he is
strengthening what strengthens centers
and maybe those betweens are our secret
Centers evanescent
Betweens ever present

:- Doug.

When I ask a question
When I stand waiting
When I am ordinary
With just this much courage
I open life

:- Doug.

Claim is invitation, demand face to face,
The wait for human grace
Make a claim upon your reader
A demand upon your hearer
Stand, wait

:- Doug.

You have a paddle:
The river doesn’t care

:- Doug.

Oh what a mangled web we weave
When we practice war

:- Doug.

Sometimes we talk
Sometimes we talk together

:- Doug.

Turning shatters.

:- Doug.

Mixture
All is
Divine and human
Amalgam
New form of God in the world
We shape
The other

:- Doug.

To speak
To write
To understand
Means
To modify

:- Doug.

Reflection can do more than make us into an It: can lead us to conversation.

:- Doug.

Not the end points
human and divine
that are the stuff
rather betweening
spokes make the wheel

:- Doug.

We walked out of the meeting different persons—and could not explain how.

:- Doug.

Everything is moving, see?
The nature of our movement, see:
Using, experiencing, turning away—
Or dancing with, occasionally?

:- Doug.

There is an actuality of immediacy.

:- Doug.

The more interleaved our memories between rational and emotional, the less we can recall sequence and precise words. If we wish to, we might start from the direction of emotions, picking apart those threads first. Then we might open a clear line of sight to chronology and word flow.

:- Doug.

Differentiating
we find of each, strength
and in them alikenesses

:- Doug.

Disclosed, not fully revealed
Human to human, being to being
A melancholy with possibility

:- Doug.

Let’s meet

:- Doug.