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Turning is hot, sweaty, heavy work. Pitchfork in to the compost, lift, let in air and moisture. Difficult too: because we are not done when we are done, but have to wait for the little people (the organisms and bugs and chemicals in the mix) to do their work. While we go on to other things, sleep and cogitate: Working together, and sometimes we see the others.

:- Doug.

We live in a money-people continuum. It is not (nothing in this world is) is so much an opposition as a stretching toward one pole or the other. And it is so entangled that one person cannot hope to untangle it, help it make sense—but all of us working on it can. That is our hope.

Opposition suggests our hope is in working together, collaboration, Bernie DeKoven‘s coliberation. Turning together.

The money-people continuum tugs each way. Provide for my family and help others. I have little enough and my heart goes out. That problem seems far away and with little effort I could help. It will take extra effort to help and I will know I helped. I don’t have the answers and I have some of the answers. Tug here, tug there. Energy spent, energy generated. Love here, love there.

:- Doug.

Don’t concentrate on looking for little things to solve, things where there might be money for yourself, things where the work is simple. Look for the complex, the things others shy away from, the things you might want to shy away from. Look not for the technical issues, but for the heart and future questions.

:- Doug.

Interview your elders: What is life about? What does it mean to be an elder to your tribe, to do the work of eldering?

:- Doug.

Conversation: what matters.

:- Doug.