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Perhaps we do not have to examine our opinions and ideologies—our differences—so much as what we care about enough to fight over—our commons. Either way in to the circle ought to work, and maybe there are other doors.

:- Doug.

Let’s get beneath the hate the ideologies engender to what we have in common: let us be about commoning.

:- Doug.

A goal is trying to force the world to do our bidding. The world tends to resist force.

:- Doug.

I like that phrase “looking for:” I think it introduces things that aim does not. It says we are open to what might be, not just what we hoped to make happen. What we hoped to force.

:- Doug.

Making the first strike in war
is an act of
avoiding conflict
for we think we win
by preventing effective retaliation

:- Doug.

Maybe only the left brain needs the training and schooling we dedicate to it.

:- Doug.

We lawyers do short POAs because we fail to see them as worthy of much time, work, and attention.

:- Doug.

A child may be born
When two come together
When more, something larger

:- Doug.

We are not consigned to our history
Rather it to us
That we might live beyond

:- Doug.

Nearer is larger
Bits are we of the larger
Gathering, we see, we are, we do

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1469

America the upstart new kid
is getting into trouble in the world
the kid has become captain of industry
who with brashness, verve, and money
jumps in with all the answers
and none of the listening—and none of the hearing
America the deef

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Larger there is than a single human
Than any community of humans
—Humanity
Larger than any humans living
—Living
Larger than any creation
—Creating

:- Doug.

Forward is not the single alternative to
Backward thinking; rather thinking in
All other directions

:- Doug.

To be truly human is to be truly divine.

:- Doug.

Having a goal signifies that we are now thinking backwards.

:- Doug.

Holy is creating

:- Doug.

Creating creates us
Larger than we thought
Creating

:- Doug.

Sitting is
doing something
more difficult than doing something

:- Doug.

Vulnerability is a strength of a different color.

:- Doug.

We need to measure outcomes of end of life caring more finely: for the larger outcome for us all is death. What if we looked for outcomes in dying?

:- Doug.

as we see the world
as we interpret
we invent our soul

:- Doug.

There is but a probability of any object being there at a time. So likewise only a probability of a there being at that time.

:- Doug.

What would intensive tenderness look like?

:- Doug.