FootprintsintheWind.com

To live we
engage all life
in reach

:- Doug.

Today is getting work done day, getting things out of my hair. So I want to open to you through the day, during my moments, all of them. Stand open to you, write open to you, move my hands open to you, walk open to you.

:- Doug.

You, truly spoken, has no borders. There is no individual and we do not end at our skins. We are without limits (a goal is a way of limiting us). We are infinite. We blend into each other. We contain galaxies of other beings, universes, cosmoses unknown, inviting us to explore. We are firmaments.

:- Doug.

Throw open your windows
Let whole in

:- Doug.

God meets me this way
may meet you another
each in our own ways of perceiving

:- Doug.

Than a snowflake more fleeting
than a winter’s wind more penetrating
the person you could meet

:- Doug.

Respect is a good word for the day—to look at someone again and see not a person but the person. All are unique, individuals, essential parts of the whole.

:- Doug.

When somebody dies, the phone starts ringing. But when somebody lives, what attention do we pay?

:- Doug.

Not to be used, not to be served, but met: the people, the books, the beings in your daily rounds.

:- Doug.

Do you feel addressed by these words? By me or by divinity? They came to me by intimate address. Respond!

:- Doug.

You can always be heard; you can always hear: there is nothing outside of G*d.

:- Doug.

I strive to work with people, neither working for people, nor against them.

:- Doug.

The whole cloth is tightly woven, so you cannot tease out on thread without pulling on all the others. My whole work, our whole-making work, is conversation.

:- Doug.

This year, thousands will die of not hearing. Hearing one another. Hearing is more than listening, more than preparing your response. This year, thousands will die of not being heard. Being heard is essential to continuing to live.

:- Doug.

We’re frustrated with one another and so we shout at “them.” We’re frustrated with one another because we have forgotten how to dialogue. We don’t know how to hear, how to meet.

:- Doug.

He is a man of heart and spirit.

:- Doug.

Let’s reduce the President’s office to one 6-month term: let’s have citizen Presidents. No one has to give up her or his job for an impossible time. It is honor and duty, like jury service. Perhaps this way we can have a true presidency of the people and some consistent tapping into the wisdom of the people. Perhaps we can do away with the constant media haranguing by the people who make lots of money if their way is implemented. Perhaps the ideologues will have only sand in which their tires may seek a purchase. Perhaps something like this can give us back our country and our world.

:- Doug.

There is seldom any “too:” most of life is just as it is and just right.

:- Doug.

G*d is unnameable, unspeakable, unknowable—the Un-God!

:- Doug.

Our whole work is conversing, engaging, encountering, meeting: our whole work is bringing us to whole, our whole work is whole-making, whole-realizing. Our whole work is conversing.

:- Doug.

What is your whole work? What is your work that is whole, complete, that pulls from your heart and essence and does what is right and good for your world? What pulls people together, what uses their leadership and skills, their loves and whatever grabs them and gets them moving? What is your whole work?

:- Doug.

Wholeness is not a matter of doing, but of being, but not only or merely passive being, active too.

:- Doug.

The whole job is whole making. My whole job. My whole work.

:- Doug.