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Why should I withhold from the world the gifts I can give? No retirement!

:- Doug.

Things I have noticed about God:
Inaudible or does not speak English
Invisible
Imperceptible
In touch, present
Unexpected
Powerless
Unresponsive to my demands and controls
Larger
Not there
All these in human terms

:- Doug.

Words may be good for reporting, better left behind for the journey.

:- Doug.

Loving large

:- Doug.

What’s life about?
Loving!

:- Doug.

Open Space is the Socratic Method writ large.

:- Doug.

When you first look to the money you’ll earn and away from the good you’ll do for fellow humans, you have taken your eye off the ball.

:- Doug.

Friend, into your profound wholeness, for what it is.

:- Doug.

Wholeness helps explain why we feel our deepest connections in times of disaster: our masks are down, we feel a tinge of every emotion wrapped in the day: sun and mud; tears and relief; grief and pain and weariness and embrace. At the raw edge, life. Life most profound.

:- Doug.

This is life: sharing the whole of life, the pain and suffering and striving, sharing the most deeply, drinking to the dregs. Lees and dregs in a bittersweet wine: it holds sediment and muddiness, for sure.

:- Doug.

As my grandchildren mature
my stories need to change
to deepen

:- Doug.

The seasons spin round
Because our earth wobbles
The days spin round
Because our planet spins
How spirals our universe, our world?

:- Doug.

You are afraid
of opening yourself
to grief, suffering, loss,
to all the negative our world can make:
because all is parcel of all
these include living’s joy and intensity
go and open anyway

:- Doug.

Take off the shoes of your heart.

:- Doug.

This is an important day
You will meet divinity

:- Doug.

Words! Let the words go
So you know me

:- Doug.

Unknown among some peoples is writing
Our risk is
Unknown among us is larger, unknowing, spirit

:- Doug.

There is a message
Make time to speak it
Make now to speak

:- Doug.

We’re Quakers
We let things be
Peaceful, passive
We’re Quakers
We’re rebels

:- Doug.

Force not: receive

:- Doug.

The trees speak not
We call them dumb
Yet are they wise?

:- Doug.

The cloud arises
approaches blinds me
snow billowed by winds
O that I see into you!
I can if I open these eyes
Stop not: there is yet more
Yet larger, nearer

:- Doug.

A smile crossed my lips this morning—I can do good things today, be a leprechaun.

:- Doug.