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We are closest to finding our way to stepping outside of time, or at least outside its rushing.

:- Doug.

This turning is toward our sacred project.

:- Doug.

How did humans transform the Internet, the computer, the aeroplane, the horseless carriage?

:- Doug.

Can we foster conversation about better ways to be human?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2484

You can say things when you are with one other person you cannot say otherwise. Indeed you are led to say them. It creates a holy hole in time, a confessional of sorts. It is not there with three or more and definitely not there when one is alone—you are too slippery for you.

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We share not so much what we have learned, as what we are realising.

:- Doug.

Meet your eleventh generation grandchild, and ask his or her name.

:- Doug.

What is the part of our conversations most in need of life? The part of our generations?

:- Doug.

What have we been doing in each decade of our lives that is common to humankind?

:- Doug.

Can we think ahead in three or more dimensions? What are human dimensions?

:- Doug.

If we are to climb over the horizon, we need some footholds, and a rope between us for safety. We don’t go swimming alone.

:- Doug.

What is the pre-story to the generations before the eleventh?

:- Doug.

Befriend the generations—how to?

:- Doug.

We seek not the immutable and changeless, for we see only an endless river of change engulfing us. Change is immutable.

:- Doug.

I have planted a conversation by the pond.

:- Doug.

Before our eyes, he fades.

:- Doug.

As we share our voices and fecund silences, we are changing one another without end. It is good. It is practical. We change our imagined. . . .

:- Doug.

Evil shrivels: Even now he’s losing the power to stand!

:- Doug.

Relating, responsibility, humbly, pragmatic, courageous, changing, conversations without endings or beginnings

:- Doug.

What is healthy conversation? Whole-making conversation? Let us discover. Let us work it. Let it work us.

:- Doug.

We are planting gardens to glow some day beyond our seeing, beyond our imagining. Soon spring will come, bringing brilliant colors, muted, tall, short, adding to the diverse fecundity of living, loving, imagining.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2483

Will you be my companion—eat bread with me—as I dement?

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Let us invent what it means to love hot chocolate, to be for ever in hot chocolate, and to live in this, the last hot chocolate.

:- Doug.