people making turning points
Open Space is people making turning points.
:- Doug.
For a community the turning point
Is when its people begin to earnestly
Converse yet again converse
:- Doug.
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For a community the turning point
The crux of a vital community
The crux of a vital community
is to converse & converse again
about what matters
:- Doug.
With the shape the world is in
With the shape the world is in
It is vitally important
That more of us vitally converse
:- Doug.
If only this poem would come out
If only this poem would come out
There’s something important to be said
There’s something important to be thought!
:- Doug.
To turn the world
To turn the world
The important thing
Is to gather some friends
And converse
:- Doug.
To throw in all my all
To throw in all my all
Is to find all my all
Is to throw in all my all
:- Doug.
I am to go forth and meet
I am to go forth and meet.
I am to meet whom I meet
serve him or her who meets
challenge us to become
us
:- Doug.
Very common
To die is very common: everyone does it. We do not have to fret over it: it will come as it comes and we have only a little say. But the say we have might be important to those around us.
We can of course ease the pain of the soon to be grieving. We can pass on wisdom.
But there is a larger gift. We can pass on love. Love not as a thing but as an action. What can we do as we are living to love this one and that one and all as one? Each may need something different from us. As we let go of more and more, what is our core, whom have we left to give? Whom can we love, specially?
:- Doug.
Common
Touch a hand
hear a pain
hug a child
make love
make a Will
drink hot chocolate with a friend
worship
To die
is very common
:- Doug.
We have ever humanized God
We have ever humanized God
When what we most need is to
Divinize humanity
:- Doug.
Surprisingly
Surprisingly
I do have opinions
about what matters to the facilitator
but not to me
—whether the Meeting structure is adequate
—or all volunteers are being properly nurtured
This is the difference between facilitation
that has its own needs and
the kind that gives my heart
time-space to wrestle with
what is strangling me
:- Doug.
No ribbons/No boxes
No ribbons
No boxes
To give our selves away
Is to be vulnerable
Nothing tied
Nothing hiding
Gift already open
Flowing through
Receiving and giving are one
:- Doug.
Hold nothing back
Hold nothing back
Give all your seeing
Give all your hearing
Give to all your conversing
:- Doug.
Give all to life
Give all to life
So life can give all to you
To seeing where you can help
So seeing can give all to you
To hearing another’s pain
So hearing can give all to you
To conversing into existence a new community
So conversing can give all to life
:- Doug.
Giving to the wind
Giving myself away
To the wind
Not as a leaf blown
But as a swimmer within
This gossamer fluid throwing in every last bit
(There never is a choice, all is demanded of each)
Throwing in to life
:- Doug.
Weaving tears and laughter
When I said community disorganizer, you laughed; there is also a side where we notice others’ tears and try to weave those tears and that laughter into a better now.
:- Doug.
One…one, one, one…one
The beating of the drums
The music of the spheres
Rhythm, rhythm
Thrumming of our veins
Melodiously
Calling us to be
One…one, one, one…one
:- Doug.
Weaving what we need
I ask
How can we
weave
what we have
into
what we need?
Weave
who we are
into
community?
:- Doug.
