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Who wants to play and work with us?

:- Doug.

What are the bigger questions? Juicy questions? Verboten questions?

:- Doug.

We each have our own metaphors.

:- Doug.

Seekers ought to be seekers of God
All their lives & beyond
Never once seeking to find
For God (and each of us) always
Has infinitely more to explore

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1368

Why do the people turning left get to go first?

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Lights on early morning traffic
fire hydrants stand guard
trees making oxygen
power and telephone lines connecting
love is all about
everywhere people caring for people

:- Doug.

Every time I talk and write
about God I miss

:- Doug.

Opening space for love to breathe
encourages snarling conflict
else how can we claim love?

:- Doug.

Nurture love
open its space

:- Doug.

Football has two goals
a striving one against the other
a time out
from real life

:- Doug.

What did lack of compassion look like? What was its genesis? What did compassion look like? How will we know when we have received or done compassion?

:- Doug.

We are not as hefty
as our bodies
spirit, we morph
able to touch
inside, be
each other,
or entirely new

:- Doug.

I sat in Sunday meeting
seeking to hear you
speak to me
children played, ran
whispers
people coughed & spoke
your essence is
in here, in here

:- Doug.

Insights are seeing inside G.

:- Doug.

What will motivate individuals to want to make an extra effort at compassion? What will motivate our organizations and institutions, hospitals, colleges and universities?

:- Doug.

When do we need to first consider compassion for those approaching death? Do we stop too soon?

:- Doug.

Where are our community’s nutrient places where compassion can first take root? Where in yourself are your senses of injustice, ethics, conscience and rage? Where in yourself can you find the strength and resolve to stand up for, to speak out for, those approaching death?

:- Doug.

What are the compassionate practices already at work in this place? What is this place? What can it be? Can compassionate community mean something concrete to this place? What specific skills and attitudes lead to compassionate caring for those approaching death? What might we accomplish together that we wouldn’t separately? What can you do your next work day to bring more compassion to the dying? What might you personally do to bring this to the attention of your institution and associations? With whom can you team?

:- Doug.

How might we show compassion for each of the persons we have identified? What might compassion look like, beyond what we are already doing? What are the barriers and things which slow our compassion, and how might we get beyond them? How might we make a system for compassion for those approaching death?

:- Doug.

For whom do we need to have compassion? The dying, their families, their nurses and doctors? Someone else? Who are our community’s exemplars of compassion? Who are the faces of compassion in our community? Whom should we invite to this conversation? Who would be likely sponsors and key persons? Who in this small group could invite them?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1367

Spirit is the quality we call together.

Please pass it on.

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Wind is whole-making, moving, spirit.

:- Doug.

Conversing is loving. The contrary of loving is ignoring, moving apart is itself loving. The wind ignores no one.

:- Doug.