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Think about smaller and especially deeper. What does it look like? Stay away from practical applications, in the sense of making money or business work.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1509

Presence is receptive
Or it is absence

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Would you effectively lead out?
The led not the leader
Will choose the direction

:- Doug.

Slow, small, growth. Maybe not growth. Maybe percolating, coloring, flavoring, touching only.

:- Doug.

Smaller takes our world larger. Larger not in numbers and Dollars, but in possibility human. Larger in personal ways. Known, hearing, intimate.

:- Doug.

Smaller and deeper, further. It’s about making our world better: more human, more loving, larger. Seems we could do that.

:- Doug.

With large numbers and publicly
We want to say why, and that surface,
To explain, thinking many are not familiar,
Nor studied, nor may some care;
But with friends and intimate initiates
We can explore, maybe the wonders,
Maybe especially the fertile lands in which we are lost

:- Doug.

What does it mean to make whole?

:- Doug.

I give you everything I have
reserving not even my
self

:- Doug.

Is debt a creature of largeness?

:- Doug.

How many is the self?

:- Doug.

Can we be about creating the past, exploring the future?

:- Doug.

What if I sought not more people, but greater depth and collegiality? Since we’re talking of sociation and conversation, this would lead to many small groups for testing hypotheses and learnings, and a spread, if there were to be one, more organically. But the spread would be depth of contact.

Which is what I want most.

:- Doug.

If people want to plod through life let them. But we do wrong to hold them back.

:- Doug.

We can do best.

:- Doug.

We don’t see them move
But the clouds do
Look up—they’ve morphed!

:- Doug.

I have a groan of tax returns to work on today.

:- Doug.

I am saddened that we prepare these good people a meal of common pablum, taking them forward by inches, rather than working to change their thinking, change their doing.

:- Doug.

Who are we to say these people are not capable, not genius, not best, not holy?

:- Doug.

At conferences do we confer?
What we hear do we run out and do?
Can we meet better?

:- Doug.

The question is, do you believe these people can make our world better? Do you believe you can?

:- Doug.

Give us conversations whole-inventing.

:- Doug.

Do we have an
Eye to keep on the
Heart of what
Life is about?
Is it money?

:- Doug.