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We arrive at community
Only by today’s practices

:- Doug.

If you can’t like them
Then at least love them

:- Doug.

To invite deeper conversation: create some chaos.

:- Doug.

What we must do now is increase the proportion of humans to people.

:- Doug.

Uncovering what’s under the sheet
Uncovers what’s above

:- Doug.

Little children some called their adult friends. That is what we are—balls of fear, fun, and all the subtle and gross realities in between. These people we can understand. These people we can love.

:- Doug.

Friend, many to help, much to do, must get off my cushion and into you now.

:- Doug.

Let us turn the grey cloth vision: examine what is outside the cloth, what is coming to us, from us, what’s next. Initially I saw in our age the whole is obscured. We do not see how we already have ligaments running from one to another, gathering us. We are poking a few holes and some are catching glimpses. It remains for us to call to the beloved community, call us to see us.

:- Doug.

Walking on a way
Turning
From our meanderings
To life engaged
Thus spake the prophets: Turn!

:- Doug.

Around one vision you can build a life
indeed several lives
actually millions

:- Doug.

Let the people bring the words
No one of us has them all

:- Doug.

Like the rest of nature
trees leafing and flowering
green shoots of grass
robins and geese arriving, bluegill nesting
we too can sense when the season turns

:- Dooug.

Courage connects us
It is heart and will twining
It comes to us
It goes forth from us
It is of the stream called humanity

:- Doug.

It is not the unknown
We leap into
It is the so far uncreated

:- Doug.

Doing, we explore what’s coming.

:- Doug.

The context helps us
With us
We weave

:- Doug.

“Soft” skills is a pejorative term some minds apply to what they cannot analyze. It is imprecise, not well thought out. More accurate might be subtle.

:- Doug.

Kindness opens my eyes.

:- Doug.

This people is capable
of risking
of giving self
of transforming
in a word, of turning

:- Doug.

To invite deeper conversation: What’s a bigger truth or lesson from this?

:- Doug.

Turn and rip
same intention
an opened eye
an opened mouth
an opened hand

:- Doug.

What does our age’s grey cloth obscure?
Only the whole
What is our age’s grey cloth?

:- Doug.

Engage beyond the grey cloth
Do I trust the people under it?
Do I like them?

:- Doug.