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I don’t want to talk about wisdom, but share ours: hear others’ truths, say and hear mine, encourage us all to give action to whatever we turn up.

:- Doug.

Wisdom: What’s to fear that we must go fearlessly?

:- Doug.

That we are only conscious of a small part of the world that meets us is not only true, but necessary, and beneficial. We are met by a world so rich and diverse…. We cannot see all that meets us, be it microbes or the air we walk through. We cannot attend the light blue tiny flowers by the side of the road and watch the child playing between the parked cars. This goes beyond concentration and dedication. Numberless beings pointing out infinite creations to attend.

:- Doug.

So courage! Speak your truth, look for strong interactors, find each other. Keep life in the world, among its humans. You will find one another. Not every one of us will be willing to speak up and respond to you (but we are here, more than you guess); no matter, you speak up in our stead.

:- Doug.

We are not connected so much as coupled.

:- Doug.

The world is alive for us
If we are for it

:- Doug.

None of us is God
yet some things
we can divine

:- Doug.

Maybe the summer
Did not get away from me

:- Doug.

Go part way
—the first step—
It counts for love

:- Doug.

We cannot live
without something of spirit
flowing through us
—from us
—from outside
—to outside
—what’s outside?

:- Doug.

Share with us your wisdom as you see it today.

:- Doug.

What helps you recognize your wisdom? When? During certain actions? A particular time of day?

:- Doug.

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Watch your breath. Be faithful in the small things and you will become capable of being faithful in the larger.

:- Doug.

What if we, like plants in an ecorange, are no more than three links apart from a strong co-interactor? You and I are both key to deep growth of creation. It is likely more complex than that. It is important we find and make conscious the strong interactions in the human weaving and unfolding. This may mean speaking more explicitly (unfolding) our part in the human project.

There is in this hope that we find one another: we may only sing our part to 3 or 7 others before we find our inter-attractor. The more looking, the more made explicit. (The hope resides in our love for loving, that is, conversing.)

I am looking for perhaps you.

:- Doug.

Conversing is the threshold itself threshing, moving back and forth; we sometimes step in and out, it sometimes moves to include or exclude.

:- Doug.

Rather than narrow myself to one work, I can work on each thing, seriatim. Today for grandchildren, tomorrow for conversation, the next project for the sacred earth.

:- Doug.

The greater community, the greater home: are we at home in the universe? With billions of billions of beings? With those who do not look or sound like us, who have more or fewer legs or eyes or mouths? Am I? I hope so.

:- Doug.

So I need to speak out, for the good of all. Speak out for conversation, love, the greater home, the grandchildren, the sacred.

:- Doug.

“I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.” H. D. Thoreau, Journal, Aug 24, 1852.

What’s interesting at the moment about that quote is the expressed desire, perhaps more universally held, that we each want to speak our truth, yet do not have the opportunity or method or don’t recognize we have them. So we must make them. This speaks to my condition.

:- Doug.

The tree doesn’t fall far from the nut!

:- Doug.

Each person is deeper and richer than we or that one supposes.

:- Doug.

As long as the world’s population continues to grow, the diversity of all will of necessity grow: diversity of scientific, cultural, and political views, diversity of personal experience, encounters, and conversations. Complex and rich we grow.

:- Doug.