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Buber tells us only Its can be organized; Yous are not subject to ordering. We can say You can only be met, each is the only one, yet itself one. So when we say we are community dis-organizers we are respecting the one of a kind nature of all the Yous in the room.

:- Doug.

Immortal our meeting-now
Also evanescent

:- Doug.

Is the world made of wholes
or parts?
You choose
& so make
your own

:- Doug.

A few days ago I learned that doctors are in some settings expected to see 40 patients a day. What’s the math on 40 patients in a day?

Today I spoke with a couple of therapists about getting the doctor involved in elder care, specifically to give the family time for a consult and prognosis, and to take part in the quarterly plan of care meeting. One of them laughed at me and the other almost did. Doctors don’t do those things!

I continue to believe that doctors overwhelmingly have a heart for their patients, but the system demands they limit their minutes per patient. Who would want to become a doctor?

Maybe that is why doctors are easier for pharmaceutical companies to persuade than our prior generations of doctors were: what can you do to education patients for better self-health care or in therapeutic efforts and just plain ingenuity in a few minutes?

:- Doug.

What is a weed,
a disease, a pest?
Something we do not want,
we think.

:- Doug.

Look at me
Your eyes lie
Your eyes don’t know
I may be in pain or joy
Four days ago I injured myself
You see someone who looks healthy
Your eyes see history
Until you hear
From my insides
You don’t know

:- Doug.

We all earn our (right to go on) living by engaging our world.

:- Doug.

Your can-play-dom is opening within me, your dream is dreaming in me, and I in them….

:- Doug.

God is opening within me
Flowering!
Calloo, callee!

:- Doug.

When you lose your particularity
you become unique
you fill the now-all

you are not one
out of many
you confront me
my all is engaged by you
perhaps because our we is one

:- Doug.

The faster you go
the less chance of getting there
before you die

:- Doug.

We don’t need to speak to
audiences of thousands
just those close enough
for us to hear

:- Doug.

Go to where the acting is
Go among the actors
Go among those being acted upon
Go to meeting
Go for meeting

:- Doug.

What is “Take up your bed and walk” to us?
Those who would be healed, be whole
Must participate
They must create their own jobs
Own health
& walk on healed and whole
It is not all done for us
Even the miracle asks of us
Response
Not all by the pool were healed
Only those who engaged
Angel or healer

:- Doug.

Can we get beyond a fear of (being rejected for) intruding to a joy of togethering?

:- Doug.

The way to live is engaged.

:- Doug.

I am Thou.

:- Doug.

G*d is between; more precisely among. In every encounter: there.

:- Doug.

Goals seek the end of things
their death
We seeks
the eternal centering
the eternal birthing
the eternal readying

:- Doug.

How do I to you respond with my life, respond out of our between? How do I come toward you to touch, open to being touched? And yet to say How is to stop response. Stand. In presence stand. Standing while coming toward. This is all.

:- Doug.

You who live in your wallet and in your controlling are living in a dry world, ever falling in upon itself.

:- Doug.

Do not stare at God: open to allow God’s heart into your eyes.

:- Doug.

May your can-playdom be opened wide in me.

:- Doug.