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Our Western thinking runs this way: No one will do anything without being paid for it; we will not do anything for ourselves that we can buy. Of course this is nonsense: we have community, and as volunteers we can do more than individuals and more than the economy.

:- Doug.

For our world-child
what are we to do?
Conceive, nurture,
bear, birth, nurse,
encourage to climb and play,
again, again, again

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 924

Speak to hearts. Speak to good, truth, beauty, divinity within people. If others say idealism has no place in the world…. Well, ask them why they still live if not for something better than they can grasp. Ask them what is the best of which they are capable, of which humanity is possible, of which humanity in this place is possible. Invite. Invite even though not all invitations are accepted.

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Arrows
Of water—down
Of time—forward
Of person—higher

:- Doug.

There’s almost always something that can be done.

:- Doug.

With is key.

:- Doug.

Don’t go back, go forward. Add the new insight to the old, grow.

:- Doug.

I used to say the subjects of death and dying are fun, when what I really meant was that what people do in its face can be poignant and beautiful. Or that my real life’s work is fishing. One thing stands for another.

:- Doug.

Life is a come as you are party—
song, beautiful song is its marker

:- Doug.

Wholeness is truth.

:- Doug.

Beauty is perhaps the mother of truth and goodness.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 923

Yesterday was Groundhog’s Day
The groundhog did not see his shadow
Did not run for cover
Stayed out and played
& All wanted to believe
The breeze we felt
Was a breath from
The coming spring

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Let us be about enlarging the beauty people see because they co-create it.

:- Doug.

The world is larger, collaborative, and beautiful.

It is larger than we thought, larger than we know, larger every instant, and growing. It is collaborative: being one, it is absolutely necessary that we work together, that we invite, that we play. It is beautiful, full of beauty and wonder and awe in each instance and in the whole for it is whole and one and mystical and earthy.

:- Doug.

Spigot threads onto the pipe
we into our world
once together
the threads are invisible
life flows through

:- Doug.

WEave us into our world

:- Doug.

The all there is is one.

:- Doug.

To an enlarged world, what is our common connection?

:- Doug.

Dreams are persons too—
How then shall we treat these babes?
For sure, we should welcome
Honor!

:- Doug.

We are—
People with people for the world

:- Doug.

It is about loving the world and all in it. It is about making all better for the world and all in it. Loving, caring, tending—the world.

TLC is now tending, loving and caring for the world.

:- Doug.

Are we living our giving? Writing checks is not philanthropy, unless it is all you can do, but often it is all we will do. Much of the time, there is more we can do, there is meeting we can do.

:- Doug.

It is about making life and the living of it…larger. It is about drawing, dancing a larger circle into which we can pour our hearts.

:- Doug.