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You try to hold yourself apart
From others
To that extent
You are in a
Dying culture

:- Doug.

The more I see the conversation of all
The less I read professional journals
During the boring sessions of seminars
There are no boring sessions
And all is lively juicy conversing
Not something to learn, take in
But something happening in which to
Participate

:- Doug.

The world is larger than we see
Why do we say such things?
Science is looking for the smaller
The tiny building blocks
Muons, quarks, strings
And finding instead
Stuff is 99% space!
Amazingly we look at the universe
Spread out before our night eyes
And wonder: What more?
What holds it all together?
What in us seeks this overall
Control?

:- Doug.

Medicaid is the middle class long-term care safety net.

:- Doug.

Demented, fermented and circumvented: but still very much alive!

:- Doug.

Who, never having seen Open Space Technology, asks for it? But I think those who have trouble thinking, like everyone, are starving for touch, conversation with or without words, music, engagement. How many never have visitors? 75%?

:- Doug.

Bedrock is emerging
Beneath our feet
We don’t have to put it there
—Cannot
Trust!

:- Doug.

Open space means we trust that there is a support when we give up control. It is then that the real security emerges.

:- Doug.

Holding hands
A glance exchanged
Hugging
A walk together in the autumn leaves
A touch
Humming along in a group with an old song
Playing tic-tac-toe
Many the ways we converse

:- Doug.

G is all around
nourishing this place
bringing down autumn leaves
softening the earth
…“It” is raining!

:- Doug.

The work of each human is Inviting Imagining In-gathering:
Inviting others to the conversation of life
Imaging what can be and what else can be
In-gathering of each other
For the family of humankind

:- Doug.

What can I ask you that will move us along?

:- Doug.

OK folks:
Let’s ask some good questions!
Let’s make good things happen!

:- Doug.

At war no more
Life and I
Usually love each other
Usually: a word of exultation
Anger is passed by
We are better
The best things can get

:- Doug.

We’ve learned something new
We’re excited to tell others!
But when the excitement fades?
Do we become boring?
Of do we find something new? Or?

:- Doug.

Trusts are doing the work twice: once at start, once at finish. You need to get the property into the trust, then you need to get it out. Probate is doing the work once. You only transfer it from one person to the other.

:- Doug.

Saying everyone needs a trust is like saying every man needs to own a tuxedo. They are great for special settings but not an everyday necessity.

:- Doug.

Increasing experience
leads us to increasing—
subtlety
nuances
essence
softness
—humanity
—divinity

:- Doug.

It is never after May if it is not always after May.

:- Doug.

Let’s have a Conver-Sing!

:- Doug.

Make room for life.

:- Doug.

We are merely inviting us to turn our consciousness from the hard to the harder. From hard hearts to beating personal ones, harder to understand with one organ of our bodies. From hard inflexible numbers to the difficult questions asked by others. From hard Dollar profits to the harder cases like, from whom we may be taking for those profits.

:- Doug.

If death is ceasing to exist, ceasing to stand out—and surely we see this when we think of our ancestors whom we never saw, with whom we never conversed: when they died they ceased to stand out to us and our grandchildren—then ought we do things now to prepare for our long-term role…or non-role? One would be to blend in today, stop trying to stand out, for it will not last. One would be consciously to do something that matters for the seventh generation. What would be others?

:- Doug.