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Do we measure things that don’t count?
Do we count things that don’t measure up?

:- Doug.

Ah, results!
So that’s what you count!
You must be working on something temporal
And smaller than your measuring-stick

:- Doug.

We see further together.

:- Doug.

Not a leader
An inviter
Inviting clear-eyed awareness

:- Doug.

Inviters!
Practice mindfulness

:- Doug.

‘Tis a better invitation
if it draws us
mindfully

:- Doug.

While we are wandering
Concentrated on something more important
Order wells up
It’s the kind that serves humanity best

:- Doug.

There is a blind spot in each eye
Where eye and brain connect
That’s why we have two eyes
And keep them moving
We each miss something
That’s why we need more people
And keep them moving

:- Doug.

If the journey’s the thing
Then the invitation
Starts it off

:- Doug.

Ask a mindful question
Expect a mindful response
Invite heartful, willing minds

:- Doug.

Setting out on a journey
we soon need the best
of each traveler
and each somehow
exceeds capability

:- Doug.

We no longer need
—a—
leader
we need
collaborating
head, heart, hand
core groups

:- Doug.

How does a group
reach mindful?

:- Doug.

Seeing is perception
and insight
and intuition
and vision
which eye do you favor?

:- Doug.

Listen to the rhythm of silence
Listen to the thrum underneath
Listen to the music of the larger
Heartbeat: of this you are a pulse

:- Doug.

If you do not still
How will you know?

:- Doug.

God is here
This is God
Nothing less

:- Doug.

Out of ideas
I went on to disparate things
What I sought popped up in
Juxtaposition

:- Doug.

Playfully the lawyer
re-spins the tale
that this family might
own a livelier
theme

:- Doug.

Educare—leading out
the larger conversation
the larger story

:- Doug.

Exploring, playing, teasing, sweating
This human, this lawyer shifts the shape of our story
Shifts the direction of our family

:- Doug.

Their story retold
The people unfold
Shifting the shape of the story
Shifts the shape of the world
Story is us

:- Doug.

Lawyer—I would that you
re-tell the story of our family
from the old one, set us at liberty

:- Doug.