In the rain!
In the rain!
The birds are flying
All about
What an unusual sight!
Are they feeding
Chased from another’s territory
Hunted
Or playing?
:- Doug.
Archive for August, 2008
Friend, I want to touch
Friend, I want to touch you. It seems the way to touch you is to touch others.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 882
Footprints in the Windsm # 882
People have a wisdom and a love in them that is their essential. This wisdom is not fully expressed, and so they are not fully, until they have created and met the betweenings.
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Let’s survey the people!
Someone says “Let’s survey the people and find out what they want us to do!” Why do we hear this so often in government and association and service? Is it because they don’t care enough to let their desires be known? Our survey stays a step away: let us touch the source. Even “leaders” do not know what the people want. Do many want to be left alone? Can despair find hope in engaging?
:- Doug.
Nonpersons in nonhistory
We have consigned ourselves to be nonpersons consigned to nonhistory. In the face of this we have hope—we can do—we.
:- Doug.
We do not hear them
We do not know who is marginalized because for the most part we do not look at them nor hear them.
:- Doug.
What in the world?
What in the world do you care about? Why does that matter?
What brings you alive? Where are your gifts used most completely? Where are you used up?
What brings you alive? What would you touch more of in the world, if you could? What really engages you?
What brings you alive? What makes you want to get up off your couch and do something?
:- Doug.
Find out despair
Just find out what is going on beneath the surface. Perhaps even what people despair about, think they have no power to move.
:- Doug.
Making the world more open?
How are you making the world more open? Whom have you seen making the world more open?
:- Doug.
Do we have community in South Bend?
Do we have community in South Bend? Do you feel part of something? What does community look like?
:- Doug.
Collective hearing we do not do
As I was waking, I glimpsed a different 4-H: Heads, Hearts, Hands, and Hearing. This is about doing these things together, moving beyond tribalism and individualism to a new synthesis. Collective mind is easy to see in brainstorming. Collective heart in giving in the wake of disasters. Collective hands in barn raisings and volunteer projects. But collective hearing is something we do not do, because we do not speak vulnerably, openly, freely—our individualism has trained us to fear others, rather than turning to them. We must turn to one another.
:- Doug.
