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:- Doug.

What’s right and what’s to improve in the direction of humanity now? What would be a step closer to right?

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What ought to be the characteristics of humanity? Am I fit to espouse these? Can I make myself fit to espouse these?

:- Doug.

Of the long purpose storytelling
What are the hard questions?

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In this life together, same as me, old friends. Kindly.

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We are in this together: we ought be kind.

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Caring—loving—is abnormal. Be abnormal.

:- Doug.

I have been seeing myself as separate from others, an anomaly because of my spiritual gyroscope, a center I do not see many others sharing. Why? People have different images, different vocabulary. Is it the same underlying truth? Do I fear others would not understand my image and vocabulary? That they would not be tolerant of me, treat me kindly? Are they really to be feared? Do I have good to share? Aren’t humanity and divinity more than a private matter? Open some space for conversation.

:- Doug.

Friend, into your mattering.

:- Doug.

This leads to softness, to strengthening ligaments, to fellow feeling, to inclusivity. We may not have any discernible affect on future generations, yet we will have made a conscious effort. To us, this matters.

:- Doug.

Facilitator stand not away from us
Mostly sit with us
Open to our musings

:- Doug.

My job is to meet the real in us and ask it out to work on us, to play with us: to dance its dance.

:- Doug.

We may speak with each other in poetry or other art
Maybe art is the only way for us to meet
The really real

:- Doug.

Have you entered the eldering moment?

:- Doug.

Blessing it is we want: generations and generations of people who are blessings upon the race.

:- Doug.

There is a craft of storytelling. There is also a craft of people hearing.

:- Doug.

I don’t so much care that I am remembered, or that my contribution is acknowledged, as that I am known once in a while, and that I have reached out to know others.

:- Doug.

Living is a community activity.

:- Doug.

Tell a story. Be a story.

:- Doug.

How do you want to see your 11th generation act? Ought we demonstrate, or start the experiment?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2046

Those little signs: how did they do it? Bring alive to me these people who died here, at this wall of the Alamo? It was my first visit. I was stunned. Here, in these tiny vignettes, I met real people.

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I don’t have everything figured out. I simply have a work I am doing.

:- Doug.

This might be true
for now

:- Doug.