The work is not creating futures—the work is the work.
The work is not creating futures—the work is the work.
:- Doug.
Archive for July, 2009
Footprints in the Windsm # 972
Footprints in the Windsm # 972
Less are we skin-encased one things
More are we fields of ebbing & flowing living
Living is smelly beauty, powerful vulnerability
& all things humans own & disown
Here’s the important part:
When these fields meet, Where they meet
We form
Ourselves & then the fields shift
To reveal us new again again
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If you’re still in this mess, maybe it’s time to disorganize…
If you’re doing what you’ve been doing and you’re still in this mess, maybe it’s time to disorganize.
:- Doug.
Our watching meddles/Makes it just so…
There is no observer of the world. Every one is within. Observer participancy is the rule. We affect the weather; the weather affects us. We organize gardens; gardens make us. We breathe what the trees exhale; the trees breathe what we exhale: who is to say we did not do this all together?
Our watching meddles
Makes it just so
:- Doug.
My retirement will be of the heart: playing-working is one.
My retirement will be of the heart: playing-working is one.
:- Doug.
Where is living in my person to person practicing?
Where is living in my person to person practicing?
:- Doug.
Can we as lawyers begin to see our work as person to person practice: taking out the word “law” entirely?
Can we as lawyers begin to see our work as person to person practice: taking out the word “law” entirely? More than that can we work on what underlies it—person to person, which can be one to one all the way to many to many? Thus the Internet and Twitter and Facebook are our natural milieu.
:- Doug.
What are the badges and the elements of life in person to person practice?
What are the badges and the elements of life in person to person practice? Being heard? Creativity—or is that contributing one’s best?
:- Doug.
Where do you want to go with your practice that you’re not sure will work?
Where do you want to go with your practice that you’re not sure will work?
:- Doug.
We have killed the law by working in money as our medium…
We have killed the law, or at least the people, by our work in money as our medium. Could we choose a better medium for our work? Life!?
:- Doug.
Engaging the new conversation–what if we are not lawyers but engagers…?
Engaging the new conversation—what if we are not lawyers but engagers of people? What if our job is what it always was—assisting people in meeting others with the purpose of making the world better? What could that mean today? Can we engage communities in conversation? Does conversation make for community? Can we seek good of the community of humanity? Clergy bring life to people’s relations to divinity; physicians bring life to people’s relations to their bodies; to what do we bring life?
:- Doug.
Estate Planning—it’s not about just money any more.
Estate Planning—it’s not about just money any more.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 971
Footprints in the Windsm # 971
Our wholeness
embraces
the good
the bad
the smelly
Please pass it on.
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A mystery we do not wish to lose: we need not fear…
There is a mystery, a mystifying, we do not wish to lose, for here there be wonderful good. We need not fear, for beyond the uncovering is ever more to mystify us, to call us on.
:- Doug.
We are living bricolage:
We are living bricolage, artists making ourselves and each other as we go, out of the bits and pieces we find by the way—and the bits and pieces are making us and each other.
:- Doug.
Because the betweens are alive, we can neither predict nor control…
Because the betweens are alive, we can neither predict nor control. We are providing the centers of life, which might actually be the betweens, with a nutrient environment, a time-place to play.
They play, they tinker, they juxtapose; they try this, they play that; some minds and some meta-minds catch fire. This is emergence; rather it may be enacting.
:- Doug.
