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Flittering leaves in the tree
green gems catching elusive light
so too human spirits today

:- Doug.

I will keep on keeping on, keeping active and engaged, improve my diet, get more exercise. Those will help me enjoy more.

:- Doug.

Do you feel wiser? And yet, has something changed, progressed? Would you make the same decisions now? For instance, do you think people are in too much of a hurry? What does hurry mean? Have your priorities improved?

:- Doug.

I don’t have anything to teach you
that you don’t have more to teach me

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1615

Wondering about the various attacks and shootings the last week or so, and whether there might be some response less than lethal. The point is, we might learn something from these people: whether and who their accomplices are, how they got this way, how we might prevent radicalization.

The Dallas shooter for instance might have been taken down with a flash-bang and some tranquilizer or even tear gas. The motorists killed for reaching for a wallet might have been prevented by a stun gun from bringing out a feared weapon. I have not received police training so I don’t know what is possible. But it seems the only response we have been using is to kill.

There was a call today for all-out war on terrorism. How does that work if radicalization happens in families and small groups and even individuals? If the enemy wears no uniforms and comes at you in ones and twos, what good’s an atom bomb or a battleship? Sounds kind of like the colonists fighting the redcoats.

The answer may be at least in part to get the information we can where we can, and that might mean making less lethal the default.

Please pass it on.

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