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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1055

Our baby never cried
Our baby was never born
We smothered it aborning
We killed it in the womb
Did not allow seed to meet egg
Our baby never cried
We would not listen
We would not hear
We covered our ears
And yours
Our baby never cried
We would not meet
Our eyes we withheld
As our ears
You do not exist
We mourn only ourselves
We must mourn, for
Our baby never cried
You we would not meet
You neighbor, friend, future
We refused to hear
Our baby never cried

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I pray
Empty me of myself
Open me
Open us
Open

:- Doug.

Read not a poem
Go inside
Poem
Poet
From here
Experience

:- Doug.

In conversation, people can reach the point where they deeply sense that for which they are there. We may not be able to invite such times, but we can open space for them.

:- Doug.

Let’s go toward the source.

:- Doug.

Systemic: when we have a systemic issue, how do we address it? Yesterday at the meeting I brought up that some of the problems we were seeing were systemic. That is like a cue word to say there is nothing we can do about that—it is too large for us or our current inquiry—so let’s move on to what we can tackle. But if what I am seeing is right, we are the system and we can tackle it. It means we have to work on a different leverage point. The leverage point is the blind spot, the place we do not see: how we see ourselves in (not society but) the holomovement. The meta-movement.

The meta-movement: the movement of moving. There are lots of things moving, but the current of these is what we do not see. We can turn our attention here as much as we can turn it to putting gas in the car. It is harder mental and being-level work. It threatens our self- and societal-concept.

Yet key is the fact that we are creating the current and the swirls and the flows by our very movement. Everybody is, so there are almost 7 billion of us creating our swirls and flows, some larger or stronger than others.

So, do we have any choice in what swirls we make? Can we affect how other people see the world, relate to us? Can we promote love and life, fear and death? Can we choose?

:- Doug.