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The clouds and the trees and the humans have all come together for a world that works. Now things are out of sync and wobbly. It’s not that we are destroying nature, but that we are out-pacing evolution’s ability to meet us.

:- Doug.

Effortlessly the eagle wheels
Wings have found
A thermal lifting, lifting
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CPR!
Crash carts!
Staccato orders!
Beep, beep, beep
Screaming flat lines!
Raging, raging
Against
The dying of the light
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Too much, too much
Of not enough
Rather, I’d have your
Gentle touch
Hear me
Wait with me
Softly, softly
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…

:- Doug.

Tell and retell the story of your death till it feels right for you.

:- Doug.

We can be sure someday we will not be here. We cannot be sure we have ever lived. That’s why we fear the second but can face the first with equanimity.

:- Doug.

How long does a poem need to be? Long enough to reach its beginning.
:- Doug.

I am giving away my gift to the world.

:- Doug.

All real life, all real love, is conversing.

:- Doug.

Reality, not reverie, in contemplation.

:- Doug.

You are all, we are all on our side; what are we going to do now?

:- Doug.

In the tree
in the squirrel
in the temple
God is not there
God is here

In the enigma
inside you
in your spouse
God is not there
God is here

In the there
in the here
surrounding you
God is not there
God is

:- Doug.

What is important about people choosing their own way of living their dying?

:- Doug.

Where is our desire for movement?

:- Doug.

What would you like your end of life conversation with your clients, your family, to be?

:- Doug.

As lawyers we are conveners of the conversation. Every time we meet clients, every time we lift the phone or write an email, every time we talk with anyone we convene a conversation. We can consciously use these conversations for more humanity, more rights, more life—or less.

:- Doug.

A toddler sees
the fact of falling
is no reason not
to get up & run
What we at times forget
a toddler sees

:- Doug.

A play comes first, then the parts
the game and then its pawns & board
a planet and then its rocks & rills
Whole creates the parts

:- Doug.

Our ethical task is to somehow find each other, to help each other find our own way.

:- Doug.

In family, in community, we can help each other live well. What is more important than that?

:- Doug.

Sunshine and wind, green
Leaf with your fellows buffeted,
Dazzled, like me

:- Doug.

Sometimes we are called to stick our nose in where we might otherwise think it did not belong.

:- Doug.

Do you want PT or PE: Presenters Telling or People Engaged?

:- Doug.

Deeper than expected, conversation is
—Hearing others
—Hearing our hearts
—Thinking together

:- Doug.

If you do not bring love to the business world, you are no good to either business or love.

:- Doug.