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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 904

These are big opportunities
We are called to:
Think expansively
Include everyone
Take charge
Work together
Converse deeply
Weave intricately
See each other again
Act committedly
Hear lyrically
Make time

Please pass it on.

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Parsifal means to pierce the veil. What veils do we pierce, poke, rip? Maybe over me, in my mind, as well as over you, in yours.

:- Doug.

Someone suggested that diversity can be bad as well as good. I think this person is seeing the possibility of war or conflict or too many viewpoints. The first two are handled with respect and well-drawn invitation. The last with allowing—that complexity is an ineluctable part of our world, and that one mind alone is not sufficient to the task, and possibly that the muddle is a necessary step in getting to breakthrough. We have to hit the wall if we want to break through it. We have to spend time in despair’s cave before we find the path to the light. Diversity inelegantly handled can explode on us; respected and welcomed and put to work, it has power.

:- Doug.

When we want to engage the top down, what are we after? Power (because we haven’t tapped ours?); money (because we’re lazy/out of ideas?); Making more people do what we want (because we haven’t found a good invitation?)? If those are the case, then what we really want is more engagement, more resources. What if we looked for resources where they are, not where we think the spigot is? For the people in charge of that spigot are surely wondering where their upstream spigot is.

People are our resources, and being the more than material beings they are, capable of dreams and ideas, of making something out of nothing, here with them are the springs. It takes bringing them together.

:- Doug.

Meaning has to do with hope—
Already it is halfway there

:- Doug.

You will find your
—and our—
meaning in life—that
is
the meaning of life

:- Doug.