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There’s no need to feel guilty. General guilt does not count—for any thing. Just get busy and help make us whole.

:- Doug.

Touch who touches you.

:- Doug.

The larger number of stones are on the base of the pyramid; the greater circumference is comprised of those who stand on the margins. And this is where the work needs doing.

:- Doug.

We make our world; what kind of world do we want to make? Do we think nothing ought to be improved?

:- Doug.

Are we trapped? Have we no choices?

:- Doug.

Do we live by default?

:- Doug.

Let’s be all about Big Talk conversation.

:- Doug.

There’s more I don’t know than I do—what a liberating phrase!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1156

empty-making & whole-making
these are all we sell here
muddle & community
hero/ine going out coming back &
finding the boon for the community in
the community
most folks don’t have either
zig & zag each and both help the
line remember it is one

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Adrienne Rich says of the Jews “we are connected [as]…the pariah, suspect, marginalized, easily scapegoated, dispossessed.” (Arts of the Possible, p 144.) As a Christian I was taught to think of Israel, God’s chosen people, as conquerors, the ones who ultimately got the land of milk and honey. But for eons God’s people have been the dispossessed. What if God’s people were Isaiah’s suffering servant? What if God identified with the littlest, the least, the leper—and wanted to stand near? What if the work of God’s people were to bring the outcast in?

:- Doug.

I’ve trained myself to see wider, longer, wholer. These are things I used to miss, and now I see more I am missing.

:- Doug.

In 1776 we wanted freedom
To live alone, as individuals
To do separate things
Then Davy Crockett said
“My neighbor’s too close
If I can see his chimney smoke”
Today the freedoms we need are
To come together, to make whole

:- Doug.

What voices in our time-community ought to demand to be heard? The voices for community, for cooperation, for whole-making?

:- Doug.

Longer conversations give us all a bigger picture and greater depth.

:- Doug.

Competition and cooperation do dance together.

:- Doug.

Let us weave each other into the tapestry whole.

:- Doug.

The world is probably against you
(We can confirm what you’re seeing)
Cooperating to change how you see us
Grabbing another beer &
Switching on the game on TV
Will only dull your sensation
But not send away Us

:- Doug.

What might possibly be beyond consciousness?

Today we are discovering our evolution from the Great Radiance (there was no atmosphere to convey any Bang sound) through planets and microbes through plants and animals to consciousness. So if we are coming together, becoming ever more complex and interwoven (humans can no longer live alone), what is the stage after consciousness? It might just be the growing together, dancing together, individual shining within and among group radiating, group radiating helping individuals to shine, each knowing all knowing each beyond brain cells to the point where knowing and consciousness fall away in simply being one and many being.

Or it might be something else entirely. How can the cell know of the woman, the seed of the sycamore? And yet they stir.

:- Doug.

The wind it is
stirs things up
sends oxygen our way
from trees and plants
blows our carbon dioxide
back to them
sends us the rains
then sends them on their way
the wind it is
sends us shape-shifting clouds
we can dream upon
if we make some time
the wind it is
calls to us
whispering, keening
converses with us
the wind it is
about which we seldom
pay attention
pay attention
the wind it is

:- Doug.

Whole-making: wholes we are, wholes we are growing, already wholes becoming more whole, bringing in all individuals, nurturing them, individuals creating more whole.

:- Doug.

Where is the highest dissonance? Today great dissonance is created by the anger of the tea party movement. How can we use that energy to create dialogue? Why would “they” want to dialogue? Why are they angry? Can we put our finger on the exact fears? What good is the anger? What is on the other side of the anger? How can we meet each other, without competition, constructively, hearing out one another?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1154

Water the seed till the roots take
Ingrain in yourself the practice
Then you wake, then you see
Tree of compassion branching out of your hand

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Questions find our energy, that energy then bounds the space for our conversations.

:- Doug.