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In the deepest sources, in the deepest waters, life. It is the test of what is good and what is not. If the fruit of some movement, say reactionary or fundamentalist is not life, then we know it is not a tree we want to keep. Cut it up for firewood.

What are the fruits? Are they life and love? If not, then I do not care to give them my life and love.

:- Doug.

Stand in the face
In the hearing
Our highest us
Spoken by the moving

:- Doug.

We’re giving each other the tools to repair the earth. Will we start work? In time?

:- Doug.

I’m at the point in life where I see less value in technical expertise. It is only the starting point. Head is great, but we need to realize it is not all there is about us. We have Heart, and we have Hands, but we also have about Us—those around us—and Poet and Wholeness.

:- Doug.

Complexity
Demands of us
Wholeness
For as it goes it
Weaves us
If we just had a
Capacity
Complex enough to
Match
We do
It is the whole
Of us
Of our milieu
Of the whole

:- Doug.

Practice the possibility of people.

:- Doug.

I’m a Weaver—a Word Weaver, a People Weaver, a Conversation Weaver, a Text Weaver, a Context Weaver—We are all these Weavers.

:- Doug.

My art form is poetry with persons.

:- Doug.

Remember you’re divinity.

:- Doug.

Sometimes, maybe most times, we have to go to know why to go.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1054

Those about me might be clashing, I see the earth turning, turning toward openness, truth, beauty and goodness, I am turning it that way with my efforts, gentle and soft and effective.

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The edge of chaos if looked at in the opposite direction is the edge of order that crushes the breath out of a system coming into being.

:- Doug.

We need to hear the voice of I-It: this voice tells us how the physical world is, and we must be in our bodies more than we are.

:- Doug.

Perhaps poetry is the only language to express a soul.

:- Doug.

Cutting holes in the board allows us to see the steps of the ladder we can climb. So it is useful sometimes to analyze, cut apart or categorize, so that we can find our way.

:- Doug.

I want to die kindly with others hearing me. I cannot give you any hard and fast rules. Just: be kind; be gentle; be loving; be wrapped in my love.

I want you to converse together—you who love me, you who are able to see me and discern what aid I need as I do my dying. Some of you may have rules inviolable for what medical procedures must be used or withheld—please cast those aside. Some of you may feel guilty and that might cause you to want things “for” me—know that I forgive you and please, cast that guilt and those things aside. See me as I am. Hear me—take in my real core needs—I am in need of dying with your caring touch.

Death is an integral—and friendly—part of our life cycle.

:- Doug.

We need to move from our core. And it is our core—one for all of us. This single core keeps us from running amok, and keeps us doing the things that benefit everyone—the whole—and that is another way of saying loving.

:- Doug.

The reason people do not feel an urgency about the environment is that no one has yet to expend the effort to touch their souls.

:- Doug.

We cannot control birthing, only initiate it. Then we attend.

:- Doug.

There is mystery hear. It is a mystery of birthing.

:- Doug.

I need to take myself hearnow. I need to invite others hearnow. I need to open doors, windows, skylights—or I am not true to my commission. To send together.

:- Doug.

There is a mystery. We are here to hear. To take in, to assimilate, to become one with. To heart meld.

:- Doug.

When have you meta community?

In each person you have met, you have meta community. The mystery of our true divine human selves. Divinity is hear.

:- Doug.