Persuade themselves
Conversing, people can persuade themselves…and then each other. Sell not, only invite. Will you come?
:- Doug.
Archive for June, 2013
Footprints in the Windsm # 1337–Hi Koo!
Footprints in the Windsm # 1337
Sometimes
I just have to write
Hi Koo!
Please pass it on.
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Emanating
From people round about
From rocks &
From animals & floors
From air & grasses
From weather
God is emanating
:- Doug.
A higher purpose in your life
“If you have a higher purpose in your life, you must bite off a piece of it every day,” said the wise old mouse.
:- Doug.
The river that runs through us
The river that runs through us,
The two footed
The four footed
The flat footed
The hard shelled
The green leaved
The calcified
Is as the ancients said
“The sympathy of all things”
:- Doug.
The sympathy of all things
The sympathy of all things
our ancients named this
world we call
all our own
see:
all things are one
symphony
:- Doug.
God is a symbol
In our times God is the symbol of our hope, strength, and ever present help. When we hear “God” we can substitute these words: “hope,” “strength,” “help,” “love,” “life” to get an idea what we mean.
:- Doug.
People don’t actually stop for a stop sign:
People don’t usually stop for a stop sign: they flow. And why should they stop when we are opening space for one another, making safe space for one another?
:- Doug.
I have been talking too much
I have been talking too much and need to reflect, hear, wait, experience the pregnant silence.
:- Doug.
to walk the different way
I want to walk the different way because it is new and because it goes closer to the water. Might be interrupted by museum, stadium or airport. But new things, new you.
:- Doug.
we are to be angels for one another
People walking along, busy, in a hurry, working, going to work: these bespeak of help for one another. We are to be angels for one another—to guard, lift up, comfort, inspire, give wings!
:- Doug.
open heart
Do the thing, desire the good, whatever happens is not my doing. Now, here, open heart.
:- Doug.
“maximum potential” alone?
How can we expect children to reach their “maximum potential” alone?
:- Doug.
Asynchronous-synchronous: an ancient rhythm
Asynchronously
is how our first generations
of technology users put it to use
until later generations
came along
and found ways with each other to become
synchronous
(Think email to txt,
books to classes)
for we love being with each other
except when others get
on our nerves!
An ancient rhythm….
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1336–Only invite
Footprints in the Windsm # 1336
Only invite.
Please pass it on.
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Enough! is a way to be gentle
Enough!
We can help each other say
Enough!
to what we eat, buy,
take from future generations
Enough!
is a way to be gentle
among ourselves
Enough!
:- Doug.
Beneath the violence done to you
Don’t assume
Others are good
Know
Your knowing is
Beyond technique
Beyond policy
To discipline
Seeing loving hearts
Beneath the violence
Done to you
:- Doug.
Don’t try to sell this
Don’t try to sell what’s
good, true and beautiful: it will
come: just work in it
:- Doug.
