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My client work
My cosmos work
My conversing work

:- Doug.

Spin together, dance
spin around, see the other’s side
all included, all embraced
turn, turn, turn
garbage & rotting & worms
turn to compost, rich soil, food
we make our universe in converse
old theories & new
old enemies & new
old generations & new
spin, spin, spin

:- Doug.

One in many, many in one
then in now, now in then
you in me, I in you

:- Doug.

What’s out there? What’s larger than you? Look! Yet you’re a part of it all!

:- Doug.

Since I am the end part of thousands of millennia, one new number to average the rest, I am unlikely to change the trajectory much. But I can keep it on the right track—and it is on the right track—and pull it a bit more to the love side. And hey! Since I’m at the end of the strand with a great weight on the other, I could apply the leverage I have and maybe swing the whole, after all!

:- Doug.

I am—you are—the tribe—those people—these peoples—the race—all peoples—all beings—rocks—rivulets—winds—things that crawl—relatives who wing across the sky—eagle far-seeing, raptor talon and beak flesh-ripping—relatives who swim with fins—swirling waters—spinning hurricanes—planets—galaxies—universes—great clouds of star-gases forming the as-yet unformed. I am—you are—the great whisper—love—hate—evil—fear—mystery—wonder—awe—creativity—destruction! I am—you are—what you love—what you hate—all you feared—or can fear—every nightmare—every running but your legs won’t work—every lover’s embrace—every climax—every failure to climax—every baby—every dying old one yet living. I am—you are—the big bang—the primordial mud—the lightning—the first single cell—the swimmers—the creepers—the reptiles—the four legged—the first to stand upright—and walk! I am—you are—the ever coming together—woman and man—families and children—tribes and then nations—and after all these millennia—symphony!—Dance! This is who I am—you are!

:- Doug.

Let’s choose to take a quantum leap—to go from here to there without passing through what’s between. Let’s open our minds in one step, do something instantly, not gradually, do what we seek to have the courage to do someday. Do it this moment.

:- Doug.

On the eighth day
did God draw a line
This I created, this I did not?

:- Doug.

Why does some of creation
frighten, repulse you?
Are we called to love all?

:- Doug.

Being born again is evolution.

:- Doug.

We are the saints & sages
who were foretold, for the ones
who accept our task & go
fulfill the telling forth

:- Doug.

Yes, we must be born again
Still, do not let your religion get in the way
of your daily evolution
for spirit reaches out from
quarks & gays & corporations as from your soul

:- Doug.

The biggest picture
you need not understand
even still you are & need to be
a conscious force within it

:- Doug.

Maybe God
is growing

:- Doug.

Today’s a just-so setting
For what will happen in it

:- Doug.

Most of us are river people. We just haven’t chosen which river.

:- Doug.

Labyrinths stand for elder caring work, and for conversation within that work. You are in a place dark and foreboding, with directions and bits and pieces of information scattered, now a straight line, now a fork in the road. When you start connecting them you see that there is a path into and out of the woods and sometimes there is only one way in and one way out, a path of making meaning.

:- Doug.

People who seek to avoid paying for health insurance premiums for their employees by reducing work hours so it is not required for them: you are stealing from your employees. You are putting money in your own pockets out of the mouths of those who have less defenses. Shame! People who seek to avoid other “legal” requirements—such as workers compensation premiums or wage and hour rules or unions—by using many people as floaters instead of fewer people with predictable incomes: you likewise. What you see as restrictions on your rights as business people are society saying this is the baseline of what it means to be human and humane to one another. Interesting, you are the same people who make a great show of religion; while at the same time thinking all the Bible stories about rich men taking from poor men does not apply to yourselves.

:- Doug.

Importance of my work stems from my setting plus me—the creative spark of life I see to bring. This is not reaching for the stars nor yet the stars reaching for me, but us reaching toward each other. Ego dies and I am reborn: larger because in a larger setting. Not self aggrandizing but doing what I can and more than I thought. Importance is in the act.

:- Doug.

Openness is light.

:- Doug.

How did you Who? What? Where…?
Who did you Who? What? Where…?
Who were you there? How? Why…?
How have you changed? Why do you suppose that is? What does it mean to you?

:- Doug.

Be curious for one another. It is a way of love.

:- Doug.

First time ever I have seen
Yesterday a purple carrot!
How’d you get to be that way?

:- Doug.