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We find the best with each other, not in ourselves.

:- Doug.

To hear is to rip the grey cloth.
:- Doug.

Bring the inviting question to every person, every conversation.

:- Doug.

Someone asks “If you took a risk are you ready to face that your efforts to bring about a higher and better world you could fail?” The harder question is “Are you ready to face that you did not take that risk?”

:- Doug.

My road less traveled
Is to hear
Voices less heard

:- Doug.

Let us hear voices others do not hear.

:- Doug.

Hear us into our world.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1057

The things that matter in this world
Traverse between our hearts
A child’s dream—unlikely dream
A cry of pain, injustice seen
Your neighborhood in disrepair
Ordinary people waiting
For someone to act

The things that matter in this world
Traverse between our hearts

Give your hand to this one child
You the witness have a choice
Hold injustice in your heart
Or lend your voice for theirs
Call your neighbors wake us up
And we can tackle this

Matters of the heart provide
The oomph we need our world to turn

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Do not listen!
Do not observe!
Hear
Take in

:- Doug.

We cannot see the wind
Yet can we feel the wind
Prodding, pushing, whistling to
Our old & sacred world
Stilling ourselves we might find
We can be the wind
And be within the wind
Wind that moves this world of worlds

:- Doug.

Healthy roots, healthy tree.

:- Doug.

Dance upon the wind
Dance within the wind
Some steps go & some return—
Some turn left and some spin—
All part of the dance
& yet, & yet, the grace-filled dancer
Exchanges them to suit the ear & eye
& with varied step spins beauty

Humans have five steps deeper
—Probably more—
Notes we play within the winds
Of universes of universes:
I upon It, I with Thou,
Among all us, Poets of the sacred,
Whole-makers

& round we go, & round we go
Spinning the wind
Dancing the wind
Dancing within, with, upon
Our wind

:- Doug.

There is a natural law of constraining multiplicity: We are focused by the constraints that arise in a group who has heard each other. The group brings multiplicity, and these multiplicities act as a constraint on the focus of the group at the same time its spectrum is widened.

:- Doug.

Wouldn’t it be useful if we could find a bigger view of this, make an action that affects it more profoundly, more systemically?

:- Doug.

There is no such thing as a goal, because there is always motion, always another day. We need something larger, something to serve all our days.

:- Doug.

There’s a bigger picture than that.

:- Doug.

Is there a bigger picture to see?

:- Doug.

A goal is a phantom
We cannot stop
Life must live on
Beyond, beneath is
Something larger, lasting

:- Doug.

Let’s do what we’ve not done—connect emerging leaders across organization and subject matter borders.

:- Doug.

I’m an apprentice whole-maker.

:- Doug.

Ours are the eyes of the world—what do we see?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1056

How can we be filled if we are not first emptied?

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There is no goal
No end—no stopping place
No heaven, no hell
All keeps on going
Nor losing weight nor making money
After every soccer goal
There’s another
After every season—another
Only stopping points these are
& what good is stopping
When all is moving?
So once we see there is no goal
For what do we strive?
What has the larger picture
To include all truth
& all horizons?
We shall see, we shall see:
For now we can ask
Is it purpose?

:- Doug.