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Friend looks around the corner
of my window
winks

:- Doug.

With one eye we see two dimensions
With two we see three
What would we see with three eyes?
What kind of eye would be the third?

:- Doug.

Open Space is not about a method but ultimately about freeing people to touch their better angels, the better within them, to touch each other, to free us to see what can emerge. We can surprise ourselves—if we but listen to the genius that is already in the room. No need to defer to the expert from afar.

:- Doug.

Nurses, CNAs, doctors, and social workers find their higher callings to help being quashed by greed thinking. We can stand up for them by speaking truth to power, but even more directly by letting them see their own creative powers to bring love to their workplaces in little ways and large. Give them opening to speak their hearts with one another.

:- Doug.

People have this expansive side, mostly buried, and it can be aroused.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1508

Those who ride the great bulldozers
Do not see
Will not allow
The walking path
Higher
Necessary is conversing
Because unauthorized

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The way I want to reach people is to speak to their gentle side.

:- Doug.

Do you like to be generous?

:- Doug.

Your day could be meetingful.

:- Doug.

Figuring how to live in a nursing home starts much earlier. Who are you? What does living mean to you? Are you the chef, the joker, the family historian, the fixer? What role do you love to play, no, have to play? Who are you?

:- Doug.

Each person by virtue of being person deserves.

:- Doug.

Emergence may be the roiling sea in which we are tossed and meet.

:- Doug.

Meeting: space for lightning.

:- Doug.

Open Space is, simply, emergence.

:- Doug.

Once you have declared
Poured yourself in the measureless out-flowing love
The swell carries you along

:- Doug.

Emergence is the work of meeting. Betweens emerge. Or maybe people do. Or ~.

:- Doug.

Prepare to be surprised. How can you do that? Show up. Shields down. Invite. Face. Allow another to engage you. Wait.

:- Doug.

We can strengthen centers
like Alexander does
But maybe he is
strengthening what strengthens centers
and maybe those betweens are our secret
Centers evanescent
Betweens ever present

:- Doug.

When I ask a question
When I stand waiting
When I am ordinary
With just this much courage
I open life

:- Doug.

Claim is invitation, demand face to face,
The wait for human grace
Make a claim upon your reader
A demand upon your hearer
Stand, wait

:- Doug.

You have a paddle:
The river doesn’t care

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1507

These inklings
not of the past, nor the real
rather of what might be
of our heart
invitations

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Oh what a mangled web we weave
When we practice war

:- Doug.