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Goals deceive us, making us think we can arrive. They whisper, Don’t ask what comes after.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 650

Please tell us in what you see your God in this world, that we might extend our view of ours.

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The word intercourse for me brings images, among other things, of co-inherence (being part of each other, glued inside each other, inseparable), and co-flow (flowing back and forth with each other–all the billions of us!).

:- Doug.

Conversation changes things because attended talk is different from unattended talk.

:- Doug.

How do we ever grasp creation?
It is too much for me!

The many and the One,
the variety of all,
the ongoingness of it,
the consciousness–the knowing withness–of it,
somehow we are knowing with G-d and G-d with us,
–this is all interwoven with G-d,
not just shot through with G-d,
but somehow inextricably intertwined,
dare we think, of one being, of one essence,
just a child in some other way than begetting.
Nothing is foreign,
all is part,
the knowing and unknowing,
the love and the hate,
the caring and the violence,
the angels and the fallen angels,
the light and the dark:
all one,
ultimately inseparable perhaps.
Creation is beyond all our dichotomies and divisions,
a circle larger, farther, father, parent.

:- Doug.

Michael shares a photo and an eloquent e-mail that will make your heart well up.

Take a look.

:- Doug.

Filiz writes:

dialogue is more than words and less than words; dialogue is the attitude to be with the other, to open to the other, to listen to the field, to cross the border between you and the other. dialogue is the flow, no rejection, no defense. it is welcoming what’s without and offering what’s within.
so when you want to raise your walls and hide behind them, listen carefully what your heart tells you. your heart is the mouth of your soul. let your soul speak through your heart.

Doesn’t she have a way with words!

For a number of weeks I have been telling myself I need to speak like I write. I am often tongue-tied when it comes time to speak my heart, so I need to remember what it feels llike to write the things I write here (usually in the mornings), and move back into that feeling. When I have done so, I have felt most often at home.

So Filiz, thank you for reminding me to let my soul speak through my heart. From half a world away, your words come straight to my soul.

:- Doug.

We have an organizational, associational life–and what a lonely one it is.

:- Doug.

Intercourse
          not economy
Generosity
          not more, more
Inclusion
          not hate

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 649

Goal-setting
is ego at work
grasping for more
rather than giving
all
to this moment
one rejects
the gift and
the giver
the other
dances.

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Conversation is how work gets united.

:- Doug.

What do you feel strongly about?

:- Doug.

Conversation is how work gets ignited.

:- Doug.

It is fun how conversations play with one another.

:- Doug.

What good is weather? Weather introduces us to randomness. Weather gives us something we cannot control. Weather demands of us response. Weather gives us something to turn over in our minds and hearts.

:- Doug.

We are other
and we are not other
Both are true
Holy Embrace
includes more, more,
all, all!

:- Doug.

Outside my window
All the birds announce
Spring is near!
Come out and play!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 648

If you were a Community Disorganizer, what would you do?

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What are the important conversations we need to raise?

Maybe it’s not something you need to know or get; maybe it’s something you need to give: raise a disturbing question; give a challenge; and insight to share.

:- Doug.

You can’t grow the grass from the blade down.

:- Doug.

Think of how much lower gas prices could be if they didn’t have to employ a guy to change the price signs every hour.

:- Doug.

Last night while sharing hot chocolate with a friend, we came upon a new understanding of the Wherever two or three are gathered principle: creativity emerges in gatherings, bubbles up among persons. What else is humor, joke telling, memory tripping, banter? Creativity is a commonly held notion for who G*d is, what G*d does, yes? So wherever two or three are gathered, if we look at what we see, we will see divinity rising.

:- Doug.

People together do impossible things.