Surprise is disconcerting?
It is not surprise that is disconcerting as much as a need in me that is now cast aside. The level of disconcert is the level of attachment to the need.
:- Doug.
Archive for September, 2014
It’s all opening, even the closing
It’s all opening, even the closing. A folding in on this side of the fabric is on that an opening wide.
:- Doug.
Arguments–spats–like closings
Arguments—spats—seem like closings—I wonder if sometimes they still are openings—especially if we can get past feeling uncomfortable.
:- Doug.
This is holy work
This is holy work, sacred. What makes it so? Bringing us together, opening.
:- Doug.
Participation is like a mother
Participation is like a mother putting a sweater on her child—sees the child feels cold before the child feels cold.
:- Doug.
We pray for and hold in the light
We pray for and hold in the light
Those moving to new communities
Let us pray for and hold in the light
Also these communities
For surely by introducing
These new elements into them
They are changed for ever
And so are the communities
They are leaving
When they might come back
And when they do
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1454–If I have an idea
Footprints in the Windsm # 1454
If I have an idea ought I not bring it to life in the world? Conceive it, give it to others to bring to fruit, if it is not of my primary work?
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And flowers:
And flowers: There is a life force in them that is itself emergence perhaps. And perhaps it moves toward other flowers in pollination, which is diversity, and interdependence is the bees and the other flowers and the sun, soil, and rains. Ponder, reflect, reflect.
:- Doug.
Children as mere ships
Are your children mere ships you have launched, or does a part of you need them now?
:- Doug.
Don’t just interact with our environment
We don’t just interact with our environment—we are our environment.
:- Doug.
We are lost
We are lost
Because we see ourselves as particles
Because and so long as; until we see our wave
:- Doug.
Diversity in tension with emergence
Diversity in tension with emergence
Emergence in tension with interdependence
Interdependence in tension with diversity
All this produces movement
Here are the working principles of life
:- Doug.
Life wants ever more
Life wants ever more diversity, interdependence, and self-organization.
:- Doug.
whole family system
We work with your whole family system in these situations, so it is important for me to get a feel for how things go.
:- Doug.
One family thing
What’s one thing important for me to know about your family? Tell me a story that illustrates that.
:- Doug.
