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An opening
you stand silent
and alive

:- Doug.

You can’t know what you need to know
you’ll learn along the way
or you’ll have to make it up

:- Doug.

You’re it!
There is no great president
who will make us safe and free
who will make us a better world
No one else, it’s up to you

:- Doug.

A big problem of humankind is our straight line thinking things will keep on as they have even though they were quite different four years ago. Economics, health, family: all dominated by the unchanging straight line. We could think, or even observe, and know better.

;- Doug.

I am wondering whether it is worthwhile to push to look for insights. Can I see more when I am looking? Be careful you let the seeing see itself and let in what comes from sideways on.

:- Doug.

Why do we feel better when the sun is out and skies are blue, than when we are covered over with a fluffy comforter?

:- Doug.

Today in your holiday preparations, think of one less thing to do.

:- Doug.

But no happy endings
no sad either
leave to us the next

:- Doug.

Lightning creates a clearing
in the storm
now we can think

:- Doug.

Complexity helps us weave
where we’re going
unless we deny it

:- Doug.

What’s the larger
holding up
what we’re doing?

:- Doug.

Let’s get very very still and see what happens. In our family, our circle, our our.

:- Doug.

Here’s a crack in the universe
The larger comes out through us
When we converse

:- Doug.

Tunnel equally through
the stories of
despair and triumph
till we get to
stories to carry us on

:- Doug.

Because we have an opposable thumb
we think in opposables:
our big toe can help us grasp
can we think or our opponents
as helping us get a firm grasp?

:- Doug.

Do we have 2 hands, 2 eyes, 2 many things
So we can compare?
Or do we compare because we have two?

:- Doug.

Clarity? Peace? Engagement?
When you come to a group
Be what they seek
Without yourself seeking
Without selling: be

:- Doug.

By remaining
By remaining
By remaining
You invite
You invite
You invite
Tranquil—action
Empty—fullness
Still—clarity

:- Doug.

Holidays are easier to insight
perhaps because I give me permission
make room and a larger flower opens

:- Doug.

Life is soft
and we are hard
or is it the other?

:- Doug.

Let us teach each other
how to live
when we must cry

:- Doug.

You can change the past
you can fight city hall
the last times of your life you can make matter
At least in the meaning to you
or work with them
you can live even then

:- Doug.

We are not limited to what our mind can conceive. Even our collective mind.

:- Doug.