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See the impish glint in the eye? Live in that glint.

:- Doug.

God needs to be weak with us so as to be in communion with us. That’s the true arrow of the desire.

:- Doug.

Can we do better? Can we imagine?

:- Doug.

Three hundred years is a call for vision for a future discontinuous with the present.

:- Doug.

Can we finally take responsibility for our dreams?

:- Doug.

In what specific ways can humanity be better?

:- Doug.

What use can we be?

:- Doug.

Get involved helping people.

:- Doug.

“Afford” is a code word for “choose.” We choose military uncontrolled cost overruns over health care, giving in to our weariness over getting started on the college degree, or taking on the community project that pulls our heart.

:- Doug.

Leave the sheet open to receive your glimpses.

:- Doug.

Human responsiveness will come not in eliminating pain but opening our eyes to others’ pain.

:- Doug.

Human responsibility is about personally bringing it home.

:- Doug.

Like to turn things inside out
and see what’s there

:- Doug.

We need to move beyond the politics of nasty.

:- Doug.

The elder is in an excellent place to show us the value in opening to others, in dialoguing with them.

:- Doug.

Stories can give us fresh eyes, show us unconsidered possibilities.

:- Doug.

So if my long view does not move you, tell me yours.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1879

Let us remind us of ourselves
We are here
We can hear
This essence
Beneath the hurly-burly
Beneath the jittery
Things we must get done
Here
Here are we
Ourselves
We have worth
Just as we are here
Put again mind
And Heart
To—as we are—
Ourselves
It is this covered-over
Essence of us
Individually and together
Which Life itself
Demands of us
Uncover!
Set in motion!

Please pass it on.

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Write some to collect my thoughts
talk some to collect others and their thoughts

:- Doug.

The long purpose is also to bring the long sight.

:- Doug.

Lost
may be
right placement

:- Doug.

Longer, wider the stories
The story
Deeper

:- Doug.

Water washes us outside and in.

:- Doug.