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A jigsaw puzzle too big for the table is our society,
our family,
our life.

:- Doug.

Law is love put into words
Law is therefore the child of love

:- Doug.

Law is ultimately about
people treating each other well
Law is about love

:- Doug.

One bird chances
upon my feeder
others notice
and try it out
a crowd and a turn-taking

:- Doug.

Heart is in the pumping

:- Doug.

Ought we then foster conflict
to the point of life and death crisis?
To find the flood and funerals and tears
and picking up the pieces?
The pieces may be what is
most real about us

:- Doug.

We are emotional creatures
afraid of our emotions!
That’s why we flee conflict

:- Doug.

On my hands paper thin skin
like my grandparents’ was
surprised am I that I am not exempt!

:- Doug.

Holy humanity is centered in putting love into play.

:- Doug.

What can I do right now for the good of others, for the good of the whole?

:- Doug.

What makes you think you can tell us how it’s going to be?

:- Doug.

The test of caring is the love we put into play.

:- Doug.

Sacred humanity is about more than thinking. It leans toward action. Action is love. Love grows us.

:- Doug.

To converse intimately, deeply:
1. Hear other
2. Hear self
3. Hear both
4. Hear whole

        ____ * ____
      /             \
     *  ←→   *  ←→   *

:- Doug.

the squirrel sniffs past
the shepherd’s crook
holding a bird feeder
must climb
if only because it’s there

:- Doug.

there is less true
and more true
out there than
our minds hold:
less because we
have created stuff
we must jettison
more because we
yet must create stuff
and find the
unknown

:- Doug.

who takes you seriously
you love

:- Doug.

believers don’t bring wars
and other stupidities
so much as literalists
the walking mummified those
who have their own eyes put out

:- Doug.

frost saw fire or ice
christians apocalypse
an end is warning
against icarus and sun tzu
time-bound our minds must also
tell a story of how we started, once
still, fly we must to live

:- Doug.

1. We were a part
2. We saw
3. We thought
4. We rearranged what we saw
5. We came together
6. We rearranged more
7. We thought about our thought
8. We thought about our thought together
9. We rearranged ourselves
10. We create
11. We bring us together

:- Doug.

see movement
drop words
closer holy
~~~
…

:- Doug.

Conversation is not soft so much as subtle.

:- Doug.

Boredom arises from many things but at its root is we are not engaging our creativity.

:- Doug.