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What we get from conversing moves beyond sterile head knowing and sometimes even beyond heart knowing. Here you experience the other.

:- Doug.

How do the mystic and the ordinary believer converse? Which language do they use, none being adequate?

:- Doug.

Hear the colors! See the G*d-noises!

:- Doug.

There is a reality that exists only between us.

:- Doug.

Yes, you can record your point of arrival, but how did you get there?

:- Doug.

Yes, there is an advantage to recording the results of your conversing. No, you cannot get these singular results without conversing. I could not have attained this result without conversing. The conversing can continue after we have left one another’s physical presence.

:- Doug.

You cannot record a conversation and be done with it. It is not an intellectual exercise. It is a living thing, between. Remove one of the participants and no between. It is an engagement. It is verb.

:- Doug.

Do not think that G*d will rescue you from your refusal to put your paddle in the water! Your paddle is your hand, but also your head and your heart. Choosing is work. Figure it out. Don’t whine, sit there and choose. Then paddle.

:- Doug.

It is possible that we might be preserved for a particular work, or that the storm prods us to get busy, seeing the fragility of life. But I see G*d more as companion to stand by us, witness with us, call us to something higher, challenge us, dream with us. G*d let Jesus actually die. And suffer. Where were the legions of angels? In the hearts of those looking on, crying, suffering, mourning. Here was the bigger work, the larger softening. Softening is a larger work of G*d.

:- Doug.

We all always have work to do. What is that work? Often and mostly it is up to us: to see what needs doing, to choose, and to hop to it.

:- Doug.

How could we, today, here, work to change our cultural view from death as failure, to something wiser and more human?

:- Doug.

A pill for this
A pill for that
But no pill to
Keep us from
Getting fat!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1234

Hide what’s important. For a spell. Surreptitiousness can promote what’s radical. Remember about hiding your leaven in the dough.

It might be well to plant many seeds in the proper field and give them a season or three to sprout. Then there appears a forest overnight!

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To our ear, conversation sounds small and insubstantial, yet it is the very motion of our life. Togethering, meeting, has ever been and is our only way forward.

:- Doug.

Caring is about heart.

:- Doug.

More magnet than tracks or strings
May be G*d
Calling us to good

:- Doug.

There are physician practices who define failure as not having gotten patients on hospice in the last month of life. What’s good and not about that?

:- Doug.

Love asks just one thing—
Share
For why were you given love
If not to share with others
Openly, widely, and inclusively?

:- Doug.

God is not the one to order
the world in the way it stands
—We do

God pulls on us by asking
Do you it for good?

:- Doug.

Has the power
To stand with us
But is weak
To kill us or them
G*d

:- Doug.

Building roads
We are
Each day
Laying down
Footprints new!

:- Doug.

Morning: I get to live another day
Get to work
—Celebrating

Life is moving
Moving, life
Our work is touching

:- Doug.

Father some say
Now I hear
“We are related”

Son now says to me
“This one has qualities
We together
Are privileged to engender
When we attend and choose”

Engendering are we
Because
We are related

:- Doug.