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:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1878

The core question is how to touch the numinous in one another.

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Tell your family lineage story back as far as you can, including as many particulars and details and episodes as you can: who, what, where, when, how, why; and forward as far as you’ve seen.

:- Doug.

Where is the space
of the community
outside time?
of the conversing
outside space?

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If indigenous peoples converse with their ancestors, do they also with their descendants? Us?

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When spirit comes in
sacred occurs

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I drum my feelings
To drum is to hear
To converse is to hear

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Spirit loves
Spirit serves

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Find us a TED or other talk that speaks to growing a better humanity.

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What are we seeing that does improve humanity? For example, dialogue journalism.

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Community in storying: we are composing a story over generations, like the builders of cathedrals. Many hands but one thread. Whether the thread starts with us, or we are halfway along its length, what can we?

:- Doug.

Does the candidate ask of you fear or love?
Remember
Love does the uncomfortable

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Sacred purposes invite
our participation for
the sacred in our species

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What are the issues and opportunities for growing a better humanity?

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If it is imaginable to do something in 300 years that is impossible in 30, it is because a community—outside time—is doing what one alone cannot.

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Listen for the long.

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Penetrate perception
Hear its 100,000 year beat

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What questions do we need to ask the past? What questions ought we expect the 11th generation to ask us?

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So people continue, life continues. Let us make use of this feature and write our story in flesh, in habits, in culture, in nature—and maybe in the interrelationships among them.

:- Doug.

Could it be that the task before us is bridging story to story: a meta-story? We find the long old story and hook it up to the new story yet to unfold? So telling the shorter episodes (our individual stories) puts a few more stones on the cairns along the way.

:- Doug.

It is hubris and folly to think long term. Let’s!

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Where is our focus?

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Disorientation surrounds us
Along comes a story
A river appears
Eddies boulders and rapids
We start to sense

:- Doug.