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We must hear to see.

:- Doug.

Trying on garments
is young person’s work
dancing shoes
working suit and tie
cook’s apron; parent’s towel
expert’s demeanor; hider’s shadows
worshiper’s solemnity
bon vivant’s broad smile
But later when you’re seeking
your truth & wisdom
the way of this work is to peel layers

:- Doug.

First seek ecstasy—moving outside yourself
Then let that go & contemplate—sit in presence

:- Doug.

How could giving bring income?

:- Doug.

How could one person’s words matter?
Speak your words out of a fire at your center
A fire that builds up
Some will hear
This matters

:- Doug.

Hear one another well.

:- Doug.

Can you stitch
Energy unseen, plant,
Animal, and mind-stuff
Into one fabric?
The unseen
—The wind—
Touches my eyes
Touches my mind
First it makes the
Maple leaves dance
Then it bounces
Through my eyes to my
Imagination

:- Doug.

We did not create the whole
Yet to it we add

:- Doug.

Floating, held, are we
in something much larger
this we set a-spinning

:- Doug.

Oceans of water
Oceans of air
Oceans of tears
A-dancing
Washing our shores
Hear: we live

:- Doug.

Be the presence. Be presence. Whole is here.

:- Doug.

Sit next to the presence. Bring your whole, true self. All that’s needed is provided.

:- Doug.

We too are unbounded, our edges are leaky. We do not stop at our skins, if we simply would look at what’s in front of us.

We swim in a common sea, our words bring harvests of good and harvests of pain. Our breath comes from the plants and returns to them. Our eyes sometimes see the colors that enrich us. The breezes blow between and among us, and the tears of peoples far off start our eyes watering. We read and we write and our words reach out around the globe and through the ages. Where and when do we stop and others begin?

:- Doug.

Sit next to the waters’ edge, listen to the ineffable whispers.

:- Doug.

A wandering dervish goes in love, with his or her presence asks provisions, exchanging therefor blessings of generosity and conversing, a glimpse into unbounded time-space.

:- Doug.

Invite people to help in big ways.

:- Doug.

Meeting is medicine
Coming together is whole-making
Healing comes in We packages

:- Doug.

Simply be
a true human being
all else is a billboard in a scenic vista

:- Doug.

Kingdoms we no longer understand
Fits us better today: milieu

:- Doug.

The wind turns me, dan-
ces me, in love I am with
this divine milieu

:- Doug.

If we have thrown it all in, maybe this is how we do our next years, asking those in malls, churches, restaurants to consider the others, the margins, the voices unheard. Whispering to them: Consider, consider…. Throw in your whole selves…. Roll the dice of your life, see what you can win for all….

:- Doug.

The colors of spring
come at different times or
the bees would get drunk

:- Doug.

It takes seed
earth, rain, lightning
air, sun, warmth
time, life, weeding
mulch, bees, butterflies
microbes, fertilizer, worms
all these peoples
in our garden
to grow an
idea into a
work that nourishes

:- Doug.