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To think toward them
To grow in understanding

:- Doug.

In chains of your making
each person you meet
stands awaiting you to open

:- Doug.

Here a reverent waiting
a quality of attention
to a person not to be cataloged
a continual
intimate
spinning
conversation

:- Doug.

leaning towards one another
each to the other mystery and alive
can we catch a word or meaning?

:- Doug.

You begin to reach depth in conversation when as worth arises, understanding slips out of grasp.

:- Doug.

I would rather hear than listen
But I am learning
To delicately perceive listening

:- Doug.

Every day on these pages I am meeting a new myself. And maybe you.

:- Doug.

Is there anything better for humans than wealth, freedom, love, self-actualization?

:- Doug.

Why do you want a gun? Why that why?

:- Doug.

What does a gun do to you? What happens when a gun owns you? How does it change your thinking about people? Does it change your heart? When you pick up that gun, what do you imagine?

:- Doug.

Tax ammunition.

:- Doug.

Guns do the opposite of what you suppose.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2059

You came and sat with me
in lively conversation
and then you disappeared
back into that dream
O I learned and so did you
tho I can say nothing
of what it was
Let us meet and here again
more likely we then will be
in different guises and places
yet we may each suspect
Was it you in my dream
or I in yours?

Please pass it on.

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Your gun, your fear.

:- Doug.

To carry a gun is to carry around your fear.

:- Doug.

Using guns on people is a failure of your imagination.

:- Doug.

Guns aren’t to protect, they are to kill.

:- Doug.

Guns don’t kill people, they make the task quicker, more efficient, and you don’t get a person’s blood on your hands.

:- Doug.

About what are you curious today?

:- Doug.

Getting curious?

:- Doug.

If you were to write a book, what would be your message? What is its source in your life? Now right (true up, correct) that book précis—what really matters to say? Go even deeper: question yourself and what you have said so far.

:- Doug.

Write the stories as you know them of people who have heard you, and of persons you think you have heard.

:- Doug.

What is wealth?

:- Doug.