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To invite deeper conversation: How are you and I connected? What’s the field shared by all of us in this room?

:- Doug.

To invite deeper conversation: What’s emerging? What’s the good, curious, barely seen emerging?

:- Doug.

To invite deeper conversation: May I challenge you? Us really….

:- Doug.

Adam saw and named
somewhat as we
to this day
put names to
what we almost see

:- Doug.

G is not my magician
My imaginician

:- Doug.

Tip of tongue words: a hint to grow silence.

:- Doug.

Life a quality of space
space a quality of life
and we the namers of the quality

:- Doug.

We do not need to share
a single view
we already share
a single world
diverse and multiplex

:- Doug.

May I
please
be both
a conservationist
and a conversationist?

:- Doug.

At the rate of awareness
The forests of hate
Are turning into
Forests of love

:- Doug.

To invite deeper conversation: May I be frank with you? Other good words: open, real, plain, say the truth, tell what’s real for me.

:- Doug.

Open law practice—faces and leads surrounding community.

:- Doug.

The world works on symbiotic-diversity.

:- Doug.

T₁ = Thinking (like a horse or a carpenter: first this then now that)
T₂ = Thinking about thinking (like a logician, philosopher, or a school teacher: reflection; what are you thinking about in what order? Are you aware of your thinking? If you change your thinking, what then?)
T₃ = Thinking together (like a task group: Hearing, silence, assimilation, emergence, subdividing)
T₄ = Thinking about thinking together (like Open Space Technology folks around a Stammtisch table: How are we relating? Could we think about something different? Could we think about the same thing differently? Do we need words? Do we need silence—together? Who else could we invite? …)
T₅ = ? Wholeness, all for/in one one for/in all? (What could this look like? What can we invent?)

The movement seems to be from:
Individual → Larger and larger whole
Concrete → Ephemeral, symbolic
Things → Movement

:- Doug.

We held up a reflecting glass
And caught ourselves thinking
Next can we hold up a larger glass
To become conscious of
We in action?

:- Doug.

A leaven
A lift
These we forget about G

:- Doug.

Microscopic flowers
Surely have their
Microscopic pollinators

:- Doug.

Passing on
Passing over
Or simply passing
Namby-pamby our euphemisms
We can’t say it
Because it would reveal
That we missed the mark
That we did nothing with this life
Least of all lived it
In our life we were only
Passing through

:- Doug.

The first step, out of the cave, was to think
The second step, out of the sweat shops, was to reflect—to think about our thinking
The third step, out of ego, will be to see the we

:- Doug.

To invite deeper conversation: Be open, empty even: receptive, a vacuum drawing to you.

:- Doug.

To invite deeper conversation: Where are the reflective people?

:- Doug.

The only reason we
teach, lead, write, read, converse, or prophesy
is we have faith in human possibility
and the possibility of
setting a spark

:- Doug.

Ask Mom or Dad to make a painting, poem, sculpture; find their creativity.

:- Doug.