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I’m for people who choose a lawyer based not on how much he or she knows, but how much he or she cares. There is only a slight variation in the amount lawyers know, but a vast variation in how much they care.

:- Doug.

Wherever you go
the room will be
full of experts
This is not about
conquering your hubris
but getting something done

:- Doug.

Observe and you might catch yourself in subtle new ways of relating.

:- Doug.

Makes sense
Whatever you think about is
Where your mind is drawn
Someone observed that people making
Large responsibility-taking gifts
Seemed thereafter to grow in wealth
Think of giving in terms of money
Then money is where your mind fixates
Think of giving selflessly
To do a part of the whole
And you are wealthy beyond money

:- Doug.

Genius is everywhere
In how you hug to you your grandchild
In her laugh, his wink, their work
Everyone in some way creative, original
Whatever your art form
Put your speciality there

:- Doug.

Reach out and
Stir the storm

:- Doug.

Art is giving
Take no purse
The worker is entitled
To his or her meal and bed
All for your art
Giving makes us whole
Adds not subtracts

:- Doug.

Extend your hand
Extend your reach
Grasp give or hug

:- Doug.

Today I am announcing
a new world order
I can you know
so can you
The world resists
that is its right
that is its duty
Together we make
the world order
All together now

:- Doug.

Do you really exist
and bring into being
a hundred interrelations?
Or do the relations bring you
use you
and then dispose of you?
Is such the true nature of
birth and death?

:- Doug.

There is so much we do not know
We are discovering more of it every day
One with eyes open grows a bit agnostic

:- Doug.

Life does not fit
a taxonomy
or within a grid
it grows feathers and fins
fingers and ukuleles
runs up to you
and surprises

:- Doug.

assimilate the one singing
into your being
sing larger ever

:- Doug.

This brand of religion
all need in some stages
or some need for a spell
for me, I have heard the water’s flows
the babbling from the creek
the rustling in the leaves
nearby, nearby

:- Doug.

All this means something
all
this
there are no words for
words too sacred

:- Doug.

Among my nerve fibers fearful of being seen
the essence of my essence, of human essence
here is where I need to work, and for all

:- Doug.

a creek am I
a rivulet
an eddy in the flow

:- Doug.

You pay me
I sell to you
the products of my labors
beneath the surface
lagniappe
I make a gift
of my spirit
there is only one spirit
for humans to give and receive
beyond bargains
and you from
your spirit
make another gift
two gifts
first you add your readings
to my poetry
second you carry off
the product that has
held me, held my space
freeing me
to more, to higher
meeting giving
meeting giving
a respiration
for humanity

:- Doug.

Embrace your ignorance
Courage now:
Display your ignorance

:- Doug.

Surprise talks

:- Doug.

Yes I do
Notice you
Crossing the street
Against the light
Holding up traffic
Because you need to be seen
Humanly

:- Doug.

I came with the intent of being lost
and so I was not disappointed

:- Doug.

Fiercely lost
can I be
can I pay attention?

:- Doug.