Today’s a just-so setting
Today’s a just-so setting
For what will happen in it
:- Doug.
Most of us are river people. We just haven’t chosen which river.
:- Doug.
Archive for August, 2013
Labyrinths stand for elder caring work
Labyrinths stand for elder caring work, and for conversation within that work. You are in a place dark and foreboding, with directions and bits and pieces of information scattered, now a straight line, now a fork in the road. When you start connecting them you see that there is a path into and out of the woods and sometimes there is only one way in and one way out, a path of making meaning.
:- Doug.
You who seek to avoid health insurance premiums by reducing your employee’s hours
People who seek to avoid paying for health insurance premiums for their employees by reducing work hours so it is not required for them: you are stealing from your employees. You are putting money in your own pockets out of the mouths of those who have less defenses. Shame! People who seek to avoid other “legal” requirements—such as workers compensation premiums or wage and hour rules or unions—by using many people as floaters instead of fewer people with predictable incomes: you likewise. What you see as restrictions on your rights as business people are society saying this is the baseline of what it means to be human and humane to one another. Interesting, you are the same people who make a great show of religion; while at the same time thinking all the Bible stories about rich men taking from poor men does not apply to yourselves.
:- Doug.
Importance in our work
Importance of my work stems from my setting plus me—the creative spark of life I see to bring. This is not reaching for the stars nor yet the stars reaching for me, but us reaching toward each other. Ego dies and I am reborn: larger because in a larger setting. Not self aggrandizing but doing what I can and more than I thought. Importance is in the act.
:- Doug.
How did you Who?
How did you Who? What? Where…?
Who did you Who? What? Where…?
Who were you there? How? Why…?
How have you changed? Why do you suppose that is? What does it mean to you?
:- Doug.
A purple carrot!
First time ever I have seen
Yesterday a purple carrot!
How’d you get to be that way?
:- Doug.
For the good of our grandchildren?
What can we be—and do–for the good of our grandchildren, for seven generations?
:- Doug.
Explore with.
“Look there, what do you see? What’s it mean?” is better for inviting than “Have you ever wondered…?” Explore with. Engage your curiosity about other’s stories. Stories and questions: humanity’s strongest tools of holy invitation. Not our stories but theirs will grow our resources.
:- Doug.
Need to explore this more
Need to explore this more. Need to explore other people more. Where can you take me?
:- Doug.
What kinds of questions will help us transcend ourselves?
What kinds of questions will help us transcend ourselves?
:- Doug.
Holy invitation
Be curious about others: that is the way to holy invitation. This is holy invitation: be curious about others’ stories.
:- Doug.
On a thousand winds
In these winds you are swirling all about me
Let me feel, let me feel,
Let me reflect
Let us open doors and windows
and arms
to life
Fly on a thousand winds with you!
:- Doug.
Within your family
Within your family
celebrate your differences
from these you find newness
you create
Within your family
celebrate your likenesses
you are more alike than different
from these you can touch each other
be touched
Within your family
blood & beyond
both differences and likenesses
lead you to love
celebrate
Within your family
:- Doug.
