ripen
You ripen
:- Doug.
Bicycles along the precipice
Breath-taking the view & beautiful
Our speed increases as down we go
Miles & miles we head into the sunny valley
Or we perish
Steer we must & carefully
:- Doug.
Archive for October, 2008
Bicycles along the precipice
Are you switching your camera on?
Are you switching your camera on?
Without we see once
With we see twice
& can share—doubling joy
:- Doug.
The line between being and doing
The line between being and doing begins to fade when you look at the skies and the world: the clouds are moving, the wind is always breathing, sighing, blowing, plants are growing, people are moving about: to be is to do. Does this make sense in other languages, other cultures? In adjectival-oriented languages, perhaps to be is to modify.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 896
Footprints in the Windsm # 896
Small Unauthorized Acts make the world better.
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How do you dream a world?
What do you dream for our world, for our community, for our now? What larger things could we be doing? How could we work on this financial issue locally? Or global warming? What are our opportunities for social and economic well-being?
:- Doug.
To true a board
To true a board is to make its edges at right angles to itself. So too we need to make our edges to our own self true.
:- Doug.
What do you wish?
What do you wish for your mate, your daughter, your son, your grandchildren, our world? Just here, stay.
:- Doug.
bless to us this bread
God bless to us this bread—
And help us give bread to all those who are hungry
And hunger for justice to those who are fed
God bless to us this bread
[Brazilian folk song adapted]
:- Doug.
Go out into your heart
Go out into your heart
Wind, ice, man walks alone
Down empty streets for eons
Any price for what is real
:- Doug.
will there even be a world?
I work with death and life and global warming and will there even be a world where the money we leave to our grandchildren will make any difference?
:- Doug.
live by diversity
Who could think of things more vastly different than eggs and flour and yeast and time and heat? And yet bringing them together makes bread. Or yeast and grains and water to make parties? We live by diversity, but not by diversity alone.
:- Doug.
I work on the BS
I work on the BS—the Big Stuff: Wills, death, life, nursing homes, estates, grieving, global warming, school boards, and doers. BS in families and communities. This is what ties them together—G*d. It is about getting people to insert themselves in life. To make themselves known.
:- Doug.
Questions define the audience and their work
The question defines the audience, and their direction: if we ask What can we do to reduce global warming? we get householders and school children and we talk about recycling cans and bottles and driving less. If we ask How can we profit from low carbon? we get business and government people and we invent new industries and work. Both can be large.
If I ask, How can I serve the world so loved? I get writing and gathering.
:- Doug.
Big stuff first
Work on the big stuff first. It means for tomorrow to work on my writing before the email, it means for today to find the big projects first, it means for life to work on global warming before watching the big game.
:- Doug.
The story’s the thing
The story’s the thing
A magic ring
A boy who would be king
Carrying to lands strange & far
A bag filled with our dreams & hearts
:- Doug.
Right minding
Right minding
Reflecting
Imagining
Staying
Hmm…
Exploring
Noticing
Following
Opening
Peeking
Hearing
Saturating
Mystifying
Presencing
Welcoming
Inviting
Honoring
Stretching
Reverencing
Weaving
Loosening
Tactiling
Sighing
:- Doug.
We are the real ones
We are the real ones
Flesh & sweat, dirty windows
& a mess to pick up in the living room
No president nor mayor
—How can they be real?—
But mostly we have to live
With our decisions &
The work of our hands
This is how we make our world
And have for ages
And we cannot deny it
We are the real ones
We make the real world
Why do we make it so small?
:- Doug.
meets
G*d meets
Me—hear
Meets loves
My turn
G*d meets
Is more
Than person
Than puppet
Than puppet-master
Befriending adults
Wrestling Dreaming
Shooting out
Whole making
Sourcing our
Loving living
Being meeting
:- Doug.
