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Maybe we don’t get back there
Maybe we don’t need to get back there

:- Doug.

To lose one’s memories
—a wonderful thing

:- Doug.

As well as working toward caring, do the people benefit from seeing the story long?

:- Doug.

Rugged individualism can fall over into dis-ease. Then we crave transcendence, that is, community.

:- Doug.

At times, the flight of spirit is spiral.

:- Doug.

We of the spirit
the imagination
the all there is
turn unknowing
to larger

:- Doug.

The day will rise when people find their home in the hearts of one another.

:- Doug.

Open Space is holy space.

:- Doug.

Let’s do an Open Space on Issues and opportunities for growing a better humanity!

:- Doug.

So what to do with all this material I have been generating?

How to insert it in people’s hearts? The small ways, not the large, for small and local gets it moving.

:- Doug.

Already we have been, in our news reports to one another, pointing out what’s the better part of humanity. Sadly, by picking out stories of aberrations. Since we don’t remind ourselves this “news” is an aberration, we begin to think it common. It grows on us. We might not be able to do much about blood and explosions grabbing more attention than a quiet engaging conversation or someone isolating the cause of a disease. We can more often call out our better parts. Tell this story.

:- Doug.

Just what is a better humanity? I don’t know. No, I do know. It is just a matter of focusing my attention, then finding words to convey it to you. To remind me.

:- Doug.

See it, hear it,
call attention to it
better humanity near you

:- Doug.

The only reason we can possibly conceive of a better humanity is that we have seen glimmers of it. So it is possible. We just need to bring it out more often. On purpose.

:- Doug.

One thing I can do is to ask people, Do you want a better humanity?

I can ask this question of people I see on the street, at fairs, in theatres, in conferences in the office, and on the phone. Will take a little courage, call it gumption.

:- Doug.

Walt thought the body is the soul. I am getting intimations that spirit is meeting: of people.

:- Doug.

I want to stretch more into spirit. Spirit, I am seeing, has at least a human element. It is spread wide among us. It is related to meeting. Story is a meeting. Story is a community project. Story starts with someone meeting her or his world, story begins its journey when a person tells another about it. Story builds by accretion and is never complete, though it might be whole.

:- Doug.

Some things are good about humanity, call them seeds. Grow these.

:- Doug.

“Improving humanity” troubles me. Until I ask the question: What would elicit widespread agreement about what constitutes improvement?

:- Doug.

Look into the candidate’s face: do you see love or fear? Because fear breeds hate, and hate breeds anger, and anger breeds exclusion and contempt. Look into the candidate’s tweets: do you see love or fear?

:- Doug.

Do you want to help grow a better humanity? What is one thing we can do to help? Ask others this question: get people using their far-sight.

:- Doug.

When spirit takes flight amongst us
Attend

:- Doug.

Magic v Mysticism is akin to control v meeting.

:- Doug.