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In the hall
A little child vocalizes
Here another turns to her
Life to Life
Ever hearkens

:- Doug.

Let’s not care
about comparing
And
Let’s care
About caring

:- Doug.

Words cannot convey the whole. You must clamber onto our lap.

:- Doug.

Hey folks! Look around
You’re here for each other
Not yourself only
That’s the whole living story

:- Doug.

Disturbing opens us to our wholeness
Disorganizing limits our organizings limiting us
Provoking starts us to scratching the itch
So now, what needs disturbing
In my life?

:- Doug.

How do we want to be present when we die?

:- Doug.

Have you witnessed someone dying? How has that influenced your picture of how you want to die?

:- Doug.

How can we be more folded into one another’s lives?

:- Doug.

G*d is happening. G*d happens.

:- Doug.

When someone is dying, why focus on the family? The heart of all of them is dying.

:- Doug.

Why is how people are made to die of such inexplicable importance to me? Could my own death be reaching back to me, ask me to learn its lesson?

:- Doug.

Each can choose to not ever be elderly; better, each can choose to be an Elder of the Tribe.

:- Doug.

We are helping families coalesce.

:- Doug.

How shall we provoke and disturb people into caring conversations? Collect stories of how people were made to die in suffering.

:- Doug.

To provoke and disturb
—the guiding value of your community disorganizer

:- Doug.

Whatever is happening now: another name for divinity.

:- Doug.

Shimmering
Is the world
If we look

:- Doug.

Person is a construct of our minds, a shorthand for a handle on this other who is in actuality richer, fuller, more nuanced than we could ever contain. Flowers we could be called Contain-Me-Nots.

:- Doug.

Heaven then
is new worlds opening to us,
in us, with us, by our work,
and we may grow & learn & change:
unfold to all we might be
We have a gift
now
to grow into new persons
Why wait?
Get busy
now
This gift is sometimes called
evolution

:- Doug.

Why are we spying on ourselves?

:- Doug.

My job is to shake up a bit those folks under my care to get them to do good for their family, their community, and themselves.

:- Doug.

There are a thousand right views of reality, a richness not perceived in ordinary hours: look again.

:- Doug.

Now we have nearly arrived at the moment between our closing of this space and our opening to a new world.

:- Doug.