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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 903

Help Wanted: running the world. Must be ordinary, know how things are, willing to make mistakes. Apply within yourself and apply yourself with your neighbors and friends and get busy. Expect fierce opposition. Compensation, success and safe return in doubt.

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A business: possible? Me?
A lot of money it will take
But I can do this

Money is not the problem
Ideas and energy and caring
Are key

If we had money, money
We’d not work to create ideas
And if we only chased the buck
Then we end with no business
No money

So does this one have heart?
Does he and she—do we—
Really care
About the people
The good we do for people
More than the money?
More even than
I can do this?

Much as I want to
I resolve to not tell you what you
Want to hear—
Ways to squeeze another person
That your chasing a buck is good
That someday you might become
A philanthropist, doing good:

Instead, I resolve to invite you
To do your good now
While you are as young as you are
While you have good ideas
While you can invent
While you are strong
And full of energy—

Share your best
Spread it about
Think not of yourself
Think of how you can
Help
Us
All

Think what good you can do
With the good you are

:- Doug.

If we insist upon the plan
We’re missing a boat
Not the boat but one
The one leaving now
While we are planning each excursion
Connecting opportunities are lost

:- Doug.

I could scatter seed about
& have a garden—
Or I could cultivate in rows
Make it easier to feed and weed
What’s important is my intention
Organization is intention’s servant

:- Doug.

I speak and write about bumping, but what calls and holds people together is this nectar of longing, the caring deeply. People drink of this, from this they have the power of gods (love), the immortality of creativity, it is what keeps calling them together. It is the love that underlies conflict. Within this longing is the bumping, for the bumping does not much good if it just is billiards. It is the impetus, the force, the momentum behind the movement. Not a driving force, but a gathering force.

Strange attractors, gathering force, nectar of longing, nexus of caring: inviting power.

:- Doug.