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This writing is my Will.

:- Doug.

We have climbed the foothills
Mastered profits & weapons & physics
Brought humanity under control
Base camp is set, next the ascent
Our higher peaks demand all
Highest strength and ingenuity
Gathering rope piton boot and set out

:- Doug.

What can we sing into existence today?

:- Doug.

The people have capacity to care for themselves
The outside facilitator is better to add nothing
Bring simple bowl, we’ll mix the salad

:- Doug.

You are the reflective moment
Its seed
Fertile

:- Doug.

Want to control
your colleagues, family, spouse?
It cannot be done
Control yourself first
If that works, you can turn to others
In everything withhold your hand
Out of compassion

:- Doug.

There is always a larger space
beyond

:- Doug.

Writing relaxes me
Into the larger
The holy other space

:- Doug.

There is always another
after
I am not thinking of anything to write

:- Doug.

Anything is grist for pondering
A stray thought
A stray cat

:- Doug.

Do people doing mindless jobs
thereby know meditation?
the endless repetitions
like the breath in, breath out?
yes, when they attend

:- Doug.

At the moment our politics swings from extreme to extreme refusing to acknowledge the travels of the pendulum between. Both stops are valuable; both pulls are necessary: the work is done in the movements. Working together is what will keep us, if we do not want to fly apart.

:- Doug.

Help everyone
Serve no one
Serve the one
Hold space
For creating
Each uniquely serves their needs
To me ’tis a mystery loving

:- Doug.

Live in the spiral
and you will never see sides
you may not see all
yet you allow for
possibility

:- Doug.

Chaos is the beginning
thus we think
but also at the end
we do not want to see
integral to the wave
following wave
life, death, life, death

:- Doug.

Small measure
of great things
our time’s content
ought to be discontent
throw in
your last farthing
your wallet too

:- Doug.

Threads
tease
unravel
follow
here
encounter
more

:- Doug.

past future
you me them
possible impossible
disaster laughter
dancing sowing
building razing
enfolded now

:- Doug.

can we trust
one another
to meet all our needs?

:- Doug.

If both-and
where is choice?
Larger

:- Doug.

You cannot see
the whole
unless you hear all

:- Doug.

Bent, lowered, invisible
Into
Living, conversing, whole-making

:- Doug.

How do we know creation’s source?
We look inside we look among
and see

:- Doug.