FootprintsintheWind.com

What do we generate beyond this meeting?

:- Doug.

A goal is a way of avoiding what is on the other side, where it leads. It cuts short the conversation: I don’t want to think about what might happen next.

:- Doug.

Purpose is a process question.

:- Doug.

What we do
not most important
but we

:- Doug.

Togethering is
making life more wonderful

:- Doug.

Play is very serious business—you see, it has to do with our grandchildren, and the world we’re leaving to them.

:- Doug.

Let’s have conversations that get things done—in community, in families.

:- Doug.

Let’s invite G*d out to play!

:- Doug.

What are the patterns that add life to a family?

:- Doug.

I invite families going into nursing homes out to play.

:- Doug.

I invite South Bend out to play.

:- Doug.

I am looking for action—heart—imagination.

:- Doug.

Why do nursing homes have to be places where people do not want to go? For that matter, funeral homes?

:- Doug.

Catching glimpse of something through Chris Alexander: the work of opening space is keeping the purpose of life-intensifying ever in front. That way people have that foremost in front of them: they do the work; I am here to invite life, invite life, invite life. Every step of the way of “building that building,” of being a “people architect,” is about getting that feeling square in front of us—and keeping it there.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 979

If you can think of nothing else to do for life, plant a tree.

Please pass it on.

© c 2009, Learning Works, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Easy reprint permissions: 574/291-0022, or by e-mail to mailto:Doug AT FootprintsInTheWind.com. Back issues available at http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com

It is the job of organizing to keep people apart; it is my job as community disorganizer to invite people to play together.

:- Doug.

I share my path a-searching
& invite others to walk along beside

:- Doug.

I’m in the midst of learning
I’m in the midst of creating
The path I’m walking
Walking our way whole

:- Doug.

The work is not getting the people to work this way; the work is getting the people. This is the work: getting the rhythm going.

:- Doug.

There is something in each of us. This something recognizes the larger whole. It is this something we all seek to tickle.

:- Doug.

My task is to call forth out of people the open togethering I too see in them.

:- Doug.

“Hello!”
Everything that was ever said is
In this greeting
—Seeing—hearing—touching
—Traveling with another these few steps

:- Doug.

A red wheel barrow
A crooked limb
A cracked pot & a crackpot
Every thing has a place in the whole:
Every thing makes the whole

:- Doug.