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Offspring have we
In this we live immortally
Offspring of the heart have we
—Spouse and friend and enemy
—Student and reader and coterie
Stuck forever in just this form
Why would I want my soul to be?
Give me flexibility for oh so playfully
Shifting shapes in my immortality!

:- Doug.

Criticizing constricts our vision, but seeing the amazing allows us to see more, because it opens our field of vision.

:- Doug.

I am the instrument of the blessing.

:- Doug.

Seek a marvelous vocabulary of the eyes!

:- Doug.

G is curious.

:- Doug.

If you are trying to find the bridges between persons, you are the one who first has to lay aside assumptions and exercise curiosity.

:- Doug.

Each car and truck
A shuttle pulling its gossamer
Weaving us together

:- Doug.

God
Complexity
No is

:- Doug.

My grandmother plaited her hair
Never the same, always beauty
Now I live among complex adaptive structures

:- Doug.

As well there is joy
in not knowing
we love the tricksters

:- Doug.

“Rodeo chicken” the sign read
Don’t this just get your mind workin’?
“If you can get the saddle on ’em
—nothin’ fer greenhorns to try—
yer in fer a ride!”
“Git along, little chickie”
“Barrel race on a chicken—
now that’ll test your mettle!”
“They ain’t easy to lasso,
and harder to tie their legs together.”

:- Doug.

Tugging at your sleeve
—your heart’s sleeve—
too well you know this insistent yank.
“What I’d like to change
about this place is to help the….”
You may say this out loud
or only to yourself:
either way, this is your profound love
your way to serve
this old world
Here is your responsibility.

:- Doug.

To do more in your group
Put meet on the bones!

:- Doug.

Strangers around the circle!
Strangeness in what they say!
Wait! What about…, what if…?

I grow!
Something emerges among us!
The world shifts!

An hour passes….

Friends around the circle!
Friendliness, agreeable things said!
Wait! Our thoughts rein me in.

Reining in can be for my good
I might step off a cliff
I might not see a helpful taboo

So how to meet our group well?

First, first! Open the spigot:
Let the water in, washing, quenching:
Drink it in soul deep, assimilate!

Later observe, be impartial.
Later still, discern.
Still, that is not all….

:- Doug.

One world
And we a part of it
We for what we love responsible

:- Doug.

“The old guard will always be here for us.”
“Of course! Thus it always was
Thus it ever will be.

“Only now, we are the old guard
It falls to us
As it will fall to the next ones
And we bring forth the older, faithfully
From our memory
Folding in our best.”

:- Doug.

Let us do
what we love
for the whole

:- Doug.

We assess our life’s value
by the ratio of what we attempt
to what we didn’t
It is infinitely less important
what we achieve

:- Doug.

Everything is not already there
Here is our hope

:- Doug.

People who turn to force
Are frustrated
By their lack of power

Applying force blocks
Themselves from
Thinking of a better way

MNCs with big checkbooks
Overpower government agendas
Greed holds back corporations too

:- Doug.

I cannot answer your questions. I can only address them. Only you can answer your questions. You take in what I give you, adjust its fit and assimilate into yourself only what fits for you.

:- Doug.

Today walk
Around the
Inside of the Inside

:- Doug.

Conversing each other we explore
Exploring we lay down paths before our feet
Feet and paths which otherwise would not live

:- Doug.