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Walking on a way
Turning
From our meanderings
To life engaged
Thus spake the prophets: Turn!

:- Doug.

Around one vision you can build a life
indeed several lives
actually millions

:- Doug.

Let the people bring the words
No one of us has them all

:- Doug.

Like the rest of nature
trees leafing and flowering
green shoots of grass
robins and geese arriving, bluegill nesting
we too can sense when the season turns

:- Dooug.

Courage connects us
It is heart and will twining
It comes to us
It goes forth from us
It is of the stream called humanity

:- Doug.

It is not the unknown
We leap into
It is the so far uncreated

:- Doug.

Doing, we explore what’s coming.

:- Doug.

The context helps us
With us
We weave

:- Doug.

“Soft” skills is a pejorative term some minds apply to what they cannot analyze. It is imprecise, not well thought out. More accurate might be subtle.

:- Doug.

Kindness opens my eyes.

:- Doug.

This people is capable
of risking
of giving self
of transforming
in a word, of turning

:- Doug.

To invite deeper conversation: What’s a bigger truth or lesson from this?

:- Doug.

Turn and rip
same intention
an opened eye
an opened mouth
an opened hand

:- Doug.

What does our age’s grey cloth obscure?
Only the whole
What is our age’s grey cloth?

:- Doug.

Engage beyond the grey cloth
Do I trust the people under it?
Do I like them?

:- Doug.

an underlying structure
an impulse
a seldom heard rhythm
we are responsible

:- Doug.

This life may not change the course of the ship
yet if with others I break loose one scale of rust
to allow all who will to see the heart of the beast
then ineluctably by inches change will come
humanity headed for community

:- Doug.

To invite deeper conversation: live out loud the next you want to see.

;- Doug.

perhaps there is no unity
save we make it
even so we sway together

:- Doug.

No one holds the only strings to the next.

:- Doug.

The loan is my vulnerable being
and the interest I receive
is my transformation

:- Doug.

I don’t know what’s possible
To find out, I must try

:- Doug.

I have nothing to offer you
your ego that is
this one in you asking
what’s in it for me?
I only have something of which
a different voice in you
will know the strains: We

;- Doug.