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This may be a wonderful tie, but it’s not Superman’s cape.

:- Doug.

About what do you want to dialogue this morning? What struck you, what needs to be said, about what do you want others’ thoughts? What’s the most meaningful, most troubling part?

:- Doug.

Sometimes “story” is too big a task. Think of episodes, little chance events that spoke to you.

:- Doug.

I want humanity to work for really real.

:- Doug.

What is the ambit of your story?
The circle of your compassion?

:- Doug.

Don’t make memories
Make stories happen:
Good and real

:- Doug.

Write a true story from your life for your friends. Rewrite it to tell to 9-12 year old grandchildren. Rewrite it again to tell to 300 year grandchildren elders.

:- Doug.

Retell the story as if to a different—a later—audience.

:- Doug.

I’m training myself to hear the stories.

:- Doug.

Vote love.

:- Doug.

We give ourselves
to efforts worthwhile
as vessels to be emptied and filled

:- Doug.

Use lots of ellipses…life’s process seems ever branching.

:- Doug.

Sounds like there may be a story behind that question.

:- Doug.

Humanity grows
by accumulating its
many small stories

:- Doug.

Thank you
can be abnormal

:- Doug.

Which ancient stories can we change?
Which ought we change?

:- Doug.

Punctuate your sentences
Put your emPHAsis on a new sylLAHble

:- Doug.

The story is always about more than the story.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1874

The story is always about more than the story.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1873

Telling our story one to another we expect something from teller, from hearer. What? It is precisely this turning to one another, this expectation. When we are heard we receive. We receive when we are received. This flow between us says to each and to group, you matter. Intuitively we know: in this flow we become more whole. Here is a clue to the something of all meeting, whether conversation or story or dance.

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