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an underlying structure
an impulse
a seldom heard rhythm
we are responsible

:- Doug.

This life may not change the course of the ship
yet if with others I break loose one scale of rust
to allow all who will to see the heart of the beast
then ineluctably by inches change will come
humanity headed for community

:- Doug.

To invite deeper conversation: live out loud the next you want to see.

;- Doug.

perhaps there is no unity
save we make it
even so we sway together

:- Doug.

No one holds the only strings to the next.

:- Doug.

The loan is my vulnerable being
and the interest I receive
is my transformation

:- Doug.

I don’t know what’s possible
To find out, I must try

:- Doug.

I have nothing to offer you
your ego that is
this one in you asking
what’s in it for me?
I only have something of which
a different voice in you
will know the strains: We

;- Doug.

Perhaps we walk past something in our OST closing circles. Is there an opportunity here to hear the heart the mind and the will? Bohmian it might be—but we could converse our way closer.

:- Doug.

Egos are in their death throes
fighting back, with a vengeance
trashing food from the table of the poor
but egos will die off before expected
coming together, the thread
breathing, moving, growing, will out-live
not vanquish, for these bring life: humanity

:- Doug.

The next that’s emerging
Is not coming at us
It’s coming from us
From the diverse all of us
That’s why it’s unpredictable
That’s why it’s unorganizable
Only we can make all things work for one

:- Doug.

It’s silly to chase a goal if you are too tired to do it well.

:- Doug.

What was the message of the last book you read? Do you agree?

:- Doug.

Core is infinite onion
waves coming to greet you ever
deeper further always possible

:- Doug.

Change is scary
if you’re the one changed
change is also growth

:- Doug.

Give out your message
Give out your self
Neither can survive
Both are needed
This generation

:- Doug.

My message
to risk yourself conversing
must be risked likewise

:- Doug.

Your message to engage the world
must be bodied forth among the world
So it is—you are—for change at risk

:- Doug.

The only way, the only way
to get someplace new
is to go someplace you’ve never been
converse with people you’ve never before

:- Doug.

In beginning was the art
and the painting was with God
and the poetry was God
In beginning was the creativity
we are children of the creativity
and the creativity is ongoing

:- Doug.

Words, words everywhere
and not a metaphor God

:- Doug.

Food is fuel too
and this we grow

:- Doug.

What world are we consciously making
if you add up our individual actions?
In World War II Rosie Riveter and Joe G.I.
made the world safe for free people
Now we with our smart phones and txts
our fast paces and all those goals—
What?

:- Doug.