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If you nudge your grandchild to go to college, you will be surprised at her choice of college, major, and spouse. If you nudge the weather, don’t be surprised to have it storm at you. The nudge is yours; the outcome its own. So make your every nudge fun.

:- Doug.

The whole world is conversation
(And if one with whom does it converse?)

:- Doug.

If we do not seek the picture whole, how will we ever reach for whole?

:- Doug.

It is work and frustrating to say what I see. It eludes my pen. I wonder does it also elude the painter’s brush strokes?

:- Doug.

What do we understand of the universe? Fragmented? Whole? Omnipresent? Let’s start here as we work out how we will deal with our world. What is its shape, what is our role, if we see it afresh where might our fun want to take it?

:- Doug.

Complex nuanced woven
Our world and so we
Our divinity

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1530

So yesterday I wrote a poem about the fun life invents for us, paths forking without end for us to try today, and yesterday I found the F. David Peat Website postings about Gentle Action, and this morning I am seeing a correlation between them. It is fun to try our forks, to invent new ones, and that indeed is how we are invited. So this is a call to small groups and gentle action around the edges, realizing that we are nudging more than controlling. We can tell a child No and of course it does not stick, or we can redirect to something else bright and shiny and intriguing, and that does work. And the child’s creativity (what the child was about from the beginning) is not stifled, it is nourished.

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Gentle our collaboration.

:- Doug.

Life is a family affair. Death must be too.

:- Doug.