It will take all of us
It will take all of us to love the whole of us.
:- Doug.
We are greying—and still growing.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
For the good of our grandchildren?
What can we be—and do–for the good of our grandchildren, for seven generations?
:- Doug.
Explore with.
“Look there, what do you see? What’s it mean?” is better for inviting than “Have you ever wondered…?” Explore with. Engage your curiosity about other’s stories. Stories and questions: humanity’s strongest tools of holy invitation. Not our stories but theirs will grow our resources.
:- Doug.
Need to explore this more
Need to explore this more. Need to explore other people more. Where can you take me?
:- Doug.
What kinds of questions will help us transcend ourselves?
What kinds of questions will help us transcend ourselves?
:- Doug.
Holy invitation
Be curious about others: that is the way to holy invitation. This is holy invitation: be curious about others’ stories.
:- Doug.
On a thousand winds
In these winds you are swirling all about me
Let me feel, let me feel,
Let me reflect
Let us open doors and windows
and arms
to life
Fly on a thousand winds with you!
:- Doug.
Within your family
Within your family
celebrate your differences
from these you find newness
you create
Within your family
celebrate your likenesses
you are more alike than different
from these you can touch each other
be touched
Within your family
blood & beyond
both differences and likenesses
lead you to love
celebrate
Within your family
:- Doug.
I see families gathering
I see families gathering around their elders, caring for one another.
:- Doug.
Poking wholes!
To converse is to become whole. To converse is to make the whole larger. Poking wholes!
:- Doug.
The conversation I want is deeper
The conversation I want is deeper. Deeper to me often means spirit matters and the cosmic. But it can mean life and death and illness to others: a first portal.
:- Doug.
Offer seedlings
Offer seedlings and see how they grow. Point out where there are larger thoughts around us. Open the lights in the persons in front of us. See what the winds and nature are doing: reflect and remark.
Reflect and remark.
:- Doug.
I would design my life:
I would design my life: bring in more conversing, with family, with enlarged family. Add greenness and lushness to life, mine and others’.
:- Doug.
Is it thought or thing?
Is it thought or thing?
What cause have we to think
Thought is not a thing?
:- Doug.
Something sacred in calling
There is something sacred in calling people together
in any inviting
in any
:- Doug.
At a conference, what part of the time are you engaged?
What part of the time are you engaged at a conference? What if you could raise that to 100%? Try Open Space.
:- Doug.
