Archive for January 27th, 2018

Organic metaphors

We would be well served to come up with more metaphors of an organic nature. In TV weather segments, in this area of the country, we hear a lot of the lake effect “machine” that gets “cranking up.” What natural living thing or process might be a good metaphor that could remind us that we are part of a natural world that has good at its center?

:- Doug.

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Work for peace

Our job as lawyers is to work for peace in this family.

:- Doug.

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Human means?

What can being human mean?

:- Doug.

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No longer human

Elders: no longer human beings
now being human
exemplars for futures

:- Doug.

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Agility of elders

Begins to dawn
flexibility in children
calls for agility of elders’ hearts

:- Doug.

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Destruction service

War machinery takes raw materials and directly puts them in service of destruction.

:- Doug.

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economic inefficiency

War machinery is economic inefficiency.

:- Doug.

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Power-Affiliation

There is a double helix in our cultural ways of seeing: one helix is domination-violence-power over based; the other partnership-linking-affiliation based. Each by turns leads and restrains the other.

:- Doug.

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Wormholes

What if we see black holes and even dark matter and dark energy not as things nor places, but occurrences, like an eddy in a stream or a whirlpool in the air? These could be our wormholes. We could be.

:- Doug.

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Mining medical crises

We can be mining medical and other crises for their meaning, making memories with the people we meet.

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Windsm # 1754–Or we kill all of us

Footprints in the Windsm # 1754

About the divisions the country is feeling: It is natural there be differences of opinion. We need to recall that there are many more of us now, each with strongly held opinions and even ideologies. Every community of people needs two things: stability and growth. These are opposing needs. If we grow, then things do not stay the same. If things do not stay the same, we are not the same as we were, we risk disappearing. On the other hand, if we do not grow, we fall apart through attrition or lack of fresh blood. So we need both, we need to include both. Beyond weighing one against the other, beyond balancing one with the other, including and honoring each. It is normal, it is healthy, it is necessary.

Here is the thing about those two: we must keep the two conversing. We must keep conversing. It is the only thing that works. Or we kill all of us.


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Pratfalls

William Stafford wrote that violence is a failure of imagination. So let’s create a torrent of imagination. Humor. Pratfalls. Jokes on social media. Giant signs projected on public buildings from drones. There are ways to bring rogue regimes into humanity.

:- Doug.

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This between time

What does your presence convey in this between time? The twinkle in your eye, the way you hold yourself, your wordless attitude of heart?

:- Doug.

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Death and agony?

Do you pray for the death and agony of our grandchildren? Of course not—you pray for a higher, brighter future.

:- Doug.

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Hello, Grandchildren!

Hello, Grandchildren!

:- Doug.

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