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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 713

Sometimes we are best served to think upside out.

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Do we really want to close the down their contributions, to choke their enthusiasm before it is born? There is a continuum from Invitation to give their best on one end to Telling how it will be on the other. Closing down the people to opening them up. Yet there are ways to gain their heart and soul involvement and aim it: by the questions we ask, the places we direct attention.

:- Doug.

Why meet? To gain money, efforts, volunteers? Signing on to decisions already made? Ideas, imagination, energy? Do we want half hearted participation or participation with abandon?

:- Doug.

If you want participation
overcome your fear of participation
allow others’ participation
even to the point of killing your
pet ideas

:- Doug.

Conversation is changing
changing people’s minds
changing people’s hearts
changing the world

:-Doug.

Negative space
empty
open
shaped to embrace
malleable
time’s wide oceans
what’s not happening
what’s not said
what’s full
who’s not here
who’s not here who is here
where’s another direction
another
what takes energy away
when
how again
quiet
now
surprise

:- Doug.