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Perhaps our task is not to create whole the beloved community, but to start the pivot.

:- Doug.

nemes & memes & circus clowns
voice & breath & inside-out
hint at—inside us—something more than
logic & law & technology

:- Doug.

Less thinking
More attention to
Our humanity

:- Doug.

This is the clue
To our economy
—To the way we live together—
Like the firefighters on 9-11
Like the boat pilots that day
Work, but work first from humanity

:- Doug.

These are heady times
People by the millions—dying
People by the billions—living
By our actions we contribute
By our hearts we decide
These are heady times
These are hearty times

:- Doug.

Meeting
Presence
This is

:- Doug.

In poetry we are searching
for the eternal language
before language

:- Doug.

I’m a little red leaf
on a green tree
soon you’ll all be looking
just like me
then we’ll all go sailing
whee, whee, whee!

:- Doug.

Chitty-chitty, chat-chat,
hide a little, stay apart
what good is that?

:- Doug.

I am poetic mind
I am poetic heart

:- Doug.

To surrender is not to dissolve
To disappear is not surrender
When surrender is gift of essence

:- Doug.

Do you talk or
Do you converse?
Which is worse?
Or for that matter, verse?
Everything is made of energy
Everything is turning, dancing
Except talk
Stands in the corner
& refuses to touch

:- Doug.

As long as babies are born, our
social capital is rejuvenating

:- Doug.

No, you said,
and fought off tears
—how dreaded the diagnosis
But now I ask you
be gentle with yourself
say how—then say how again—
you would
like to see this
ending

:- Doug.

Before you visit your lawyer for your Will, visit your journaling pad. Complete this sentence: My daughter, my son, I want for you….

:- Doug.

I am here this morning. That is what matters.

:- Doug.

A large bird circles lazily overhead
a squirrel plays on the lawn
but if the squirrel had seen
would it have been
so lackadaisical?
Or if the hawk had been hungry
would the squirrel now be?
And we, do we look to the future,
do we know we are invited, here, to live?

:- Doug.

If the economy is not going to return to what it was, what can we make of it now? If this state hangs around, what do we do with the do-do we’re in? If we can no longer live how we have lived, how then shall we live?

:- Doug.

Butterfly zags across this little pond
butterflies travel more quickly
than we imagine
what speed is our imagining?

:- Doug.

I want to see into the souls
of people in the next century
have them see into mine

:- Doug.

There are at least two ways to face and meet the world, and they only incidentally are connected with gender: one seeks to separate and control; the other seeks to be intimate and intertwined.

I think that the second is the larger, more complete picture.

What happens when, after the child bearing and rearing years, the two become more as one? There is work to be done! There is a place for both, as Buber says, and yet we cannot have life without the second.

There is likely something larger than both, and making real that larger is the work we have to do as elders.

:- Doug.

Conversation outlives
this moment
rings bells
strikes notes
outlives these lives

:- Doug.

The holy otherness of God
Draws us out to meet
The sundry others around us

:- Doug.