Pluck the amongs
Pluck the amongs. Touching one person is good, touching a few is good, but if we touch the betweens and amongs, then we are affecting what gives life among them, what activates the participation of many.
:- Doug.
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whole finding, remaking, remembering
Whole making is not a precise term, since we are really whole finding, whole remaking, whole remembering.
:- Doug.
Chisel on stone
Chisel on stone
pain rounds us out
Seed in egg
among sends us out
No lightning, much sweat
together to wrest into existence
Divinity’s new realms
:- Doug.
The music of the guitar
The music of the guitar is not made by the sounding box nor the tuning pegs, but by the strings between. the rhythm of the drum is not made by sticks nor skins but by their touch—between. Your human voice touches my ears but makes its music in our hearts.
:- Doug.
Generating larger life
That’s what conversation is—
Betweens, amongs, betweens, amongs
Generating larger life
:- Doug.
Touch the world every among you can
Touch the world every between and among you can. Play here. Remind us we are whole.
:- Doug.
Our bigger effects:
Our bigger effects are not on people or things; rather on what happens between and among them. Why was Joe angry with you? Perhaps for a complex of 102 interactions from Joe’s day. Interactions and interrelationships carry power as well as numbers: you touch 200 other people, but you also touch the second and third relations of the relations of them. A touch on one thread quivers all. Look here. Hear here. Make whole.
:- Doug.
Our cry, our essence
Whole making tells us who we are and gets us on the road to generating our essence into the world. We dig into the wounds, we cry out. We hear our cry and in it our essence. Our essence leads us out into the world to make it in the image of the good we have seen living in us.
:- Doug.
Won’t let me go
There is something here that needs to be heard, said, that won’t yet let me go. It is a matter of whole-making: pain is the whole part; hearing is the making.
:- Doug.
By pain completed
We are
By pain completed
By being heard generated
We are ourselves
By owned pain completing
By hearing generating
:- Doug.
A picture of how our lives fulfill a higher purpose
What we want is not a series of to dos that keep our noses to the grindstones, but a picture of how our lives fulfill a higher purpose, complete a larger role in the world. Goals satisfy the first need—save up so much money, buy a certain “level” of house. So they serve to make us voluntarily pay tribute to our corporate masters and keep us chained. Yet are we machines or living beings? Are we born to be servants or do we come from divine stock?
:- Doug.
When I have pained thee
When I have pained thee
It pains me double
From here we each become whole
Able by our conversation
To hear our way to generation
:- Doug.
Something that needs to be heard
There is something that needs to be heard
by the world
There is something that needs to be heard
by me
:- Doug.
Hands come together
Hands come together
Healing their separation
Fingers intertwining, reaching out
Searing pain makes us whole
Hearing plans gives us futures
:- Doug.
The broken part makes us whole
The broken part makes us whole
We go out from hear growing us
:- Doug.
Sin & guilt have no legitimate purpose
Sin & guilt have no legitimate purpose. Only remorse has. With remorse we move forward; with remorse we can see how we are connected, what we yet can do.
:- Doug.
