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Trust is less a key
To human progress
Than risk

:- Doug.

After tragedy people pull together
—together is love, yes?—
Is the same true in crisis?
Could we simulate crisis with risk?
Somehow this comes again at the juncture
Of your surest fulfillment
and the world its

:- Doug.

I don’t want to write truth
I want to find the edges of it
Where it is alive, exploring, out finding

:- Doug.

The call on my life
At the intersection of
My joy
And the work
The world needs

:- Doug.

My long suit is long conferences.

:- Doug.

Friend, into Your Risk-filled Now.

:- Doug.

What is the role of risk in conversing? This is Harrison Owen’s “yesterday” and the urgency others write about. Perhaps to a higher temperature. We have an urgency, but if it does not approach crisis, we are not willing to risk even 2 ½ days to address it. Risk then is something to raise head-on, something that stirs the blood of doers.

Will you risk coming?

Will you risk the time of your best and brightest? Will you risk their engagement? Will you risk unexpected outcomes? These are life and death risks—do not do this if you are faint of heart.

:- Doug.

We’re not all out after putting money in our pockets. Most of us have in mind a larger.

:- Doug.

Our world is at such a crisis
(Our world is ever at crisis)
That we must risk all

:- Doug.

A world class business
Is to an orientation toward the whole
As magic
Is to mysticism
—One seeks to gain, the other give

:- Doug.

Inviting Imagining Engaging
The core
Of risk

:- Doug.

Robin, no wonder you fly
Such a hard way of walking
All that hopping
Cardinal, no wonder you fly
Walking traverses too little

:- Doug.

Friend, into Your Risking Now.

:- Doug.

Larger focus
larger risk

:- Doug.

Friend, into Your Next Now.

:- Doug.

The needs
feed us
mind heart & will

:- Doug.

Censor not
Judge not
Your writing
Write, write
What presents
Someone hears truth
Write, write

:- Doug.

We can each be utilities
for one another
… and the whole

:- Doug.

The emerging next is at least influenced by forces of each person on earth: leaders and what they want for good or ill; followers and what they choose to follow; news media and what they choose to publish. If we fight this next we are dropping out, saying what is is not. If we see where we all are and seem to be heading then we can influence the next. There are too many forces for any one to control. All influence.

:- Doug.

The reason we don’t melt into the ocean may be related to why the most personal is the most universal. World intimacy.

:- Doug.

We explore for a felt change of attention.

:- Doug.

Conversation weaves us
Ever more complexly
Together and individuated

:- Doug.

Weaving complexity I am
Weaving me complexity is

:- Doug.