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What difference does this plenum offer? It invites us to place hands upon the larger and steer the world.

It offers us to touch each other and to meet as beings.

The plenum offers us the necessity of acting upon what is most deeply in our hearts. We thought we were here to make money and support our family financially when in fact we were here to be family and touch each other and the world, opening it to the fullness.

:- Doug.

Maybe all this does not open a window on the original substance but on the substance toward which we are headed—intermediate or completion.

:- Doug.

We are not here to care for people with a disease, we are here to meet. Seeing the face of a disease and not the person is an issue for our society.

:- Doug.

Last night I saw Jesus’s temptation scene in a new light—get about what you’re about, forget the stuff you “could” do, and get busy. You are not giving up anything but gaining clarity and power.

:- Doug.

I need to figure out how to get back to my feeling, which I used to wear more closely to the surface (probably the wrong side out, though): I put it away after being told many times to get a thicker skin. This is a valuable insight—for there are the feelings that get hurt easily, the ones which turn in on yourself, and then there is feeling and sensitivity to what is there and valuable, but subtle.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1003

What’s to like? There are lots of people here who care. They are inventive. They want to help. They are kind. They want to make the world better for themselves and the seventh generation. They are passionate. They are trustworthy. Respectful, good, kind, creative, profound, adult, effective, collaborative, amazing. This I like about them. They are not to be feared, but to be invited. Invited to be who they are at their best.

That’s all we need do: Invite people to be their best.

And love them.

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I’m looking for evidence of life in elder law.

:- Doug.

Light, sound, conversations, meeting are vibrations of space. Life itself, in its very interaction with its environment is vibration. Space itself vibrates, moves, touches. G*d is vibrating. If we are to do life well, we vibrate the space ready to vibrate, with the centers of space already vibrating. In reality, good vibrations. Verb, vibration, movement, rhythm, resonance, touch, wave.

What life is there? In what ways might we preserve and extend?

:- Doug.

Ever what emerges is being.

:- Doug.

Towards where do we choose to evolve? Towards more life, towards more being, more I.

Then the question is how well can we make the centers, bring life and being and I, and probably not to how many. Quality attracts quantity better than quantity attracts quality.

:- Doug.

Remember too that beings nest—next to and within each other.

:- Doug.

What coheres in this complex of life?

:- Doug.

I am encouraging the world to become more alive.

:- Doug.

I craft living words.

:- Doug.

What I’m trying to grasp, to work out, is what my practice is. Right now I am working with the phrase “I’m intensifying beings.” Now beings might be my client going into a nursing home, or the document or poem I create to be somehow living and responsive, and the term beings is also much larger—it includes more than humans, more than sentient creatures, all the way to the stuff that fills the universe, unknowable as it is.

:- Doug.

I’m intensifying beings.

:- Doug.

G*d—we—intensify.

:- Doug.

1. We are part of I am there. This is called life.
2. We intensify I am there. This is called unity.
3. We intensify each other. This is called community.
4. We are only in relation. This is called meeting.
5. We most work for the whole doing what stirs us. This is called love.

:- Doug.

How do we widen the good conversations in nursing homes?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1002

Be not afraid to open to sadness: here life is most real. Be not quick to grasp the first hope. Find what is deepest. What is most telling?

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Open space has freedom—to come together, to intensify whole being.

:- Doug.

How can we bring open space to nursing homes?

:- Doug.