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Turn flesh into spirit?
Nay! Into flame!

:- Doug.

Just researched a bit about expressive therapy: the use of music, art, and story telling to help folks with dementia have a higher quality life. For me I understand higher quality to mean more woven into life. This study says to me there is that creativity of God in all of us, and it might not show for dementia people because they are in enforced do nothing mode. And because we fail them by thinking that trouble thinking one way means trouble thinking in all ways.

:- Doug.

To invite deeper conversation: Who will be our partners? Who is in our cast of characters?

:- Doug.

Humanity is an expression of divinity
as it creates melodies
with other members of the orchestra

:- Doug.

I entice you to one another
To the larger spiraling around you
you will need to make up your mind

:- Doug.

Make up your mind my love
Will you side with money, your stomach,
or with humanity?

:- Doug.

The only thing which deserves expressing
will only consent to being expressed
in living

:- Doug.

Art is attempting to express
—always failing—
that which refuses to be expressed

:- Doug.

Enjoying the world contributes to improving it
We take its measure, test its supposed limits

:- Doug.

Living all the way to dying
is a process of
turning the entire flesh to spirit

:- Doug.

It is of no import that I be remembered
Only that I helped humanity forward

:- Doug.

Uncover community

:- Doug.

Sacred conversation
is finding sacred connections

:- Doug.

If you do not crow in the morning
The earth does not roll over to face the sun

:- Doug.

We are chrysalises
immature, inactive
incased in a hard shell
What is your question?

;- Doug.

Open a riverbed
for future humanity
but especially for next hour

:- Doug.

Supreme Folly is a name.

:- Doug.

Silence is a massage
Of brain, heart, and will

:- Doug.

Teach conversation to lawyers
Sacred relationship—the heart of law practice
Irreplaceable and interchangeable at once
With whom else can we partner?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1441

Brokenness is integral to wholeness.

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To possible to resurrection to throwing away all
There is a sacred Yes
To duty to burdens to please help
There is a sacred No

:- Doug.

No limit
when we open our eyes
to the intent deep and ours

:- Doug.

To invite deeper conversation: Be playful; find play here.

:- Doug.