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Do what you can, not what you must.

:- Doug.

The half-day solve-everything event: why do we over and again try to do this to ourselves? Change is a process. What we are seeking will not be done in a day, but will take work beyond that. We are asking too much of the human organism to ask that people resolve all the things they will want in a few hours. We need sleeping on it time. We need conversations that can go deeply. We need reflection time. We need continuing conversation. Trying to force things into a time frame that is too small is like forcing a fat kid into a size small shirt: buttons are gonna pop, the shirt will be ruined, and the kid will not be clothed.

:- Doug.

Conversation opens the participants, gets us asking ourselves, individually and together, questions that can change how we approach life and life together. Renewed, we can.

:- Doug.

Put hydrogen and oxygen together and you get…wet! Add carbon and you get life!

:- Doug.

Conversation creates worlds.

:- Doug.

What could you do, working with others, to make ours a community that works for all?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 751

How many conversations are you planting today?

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Where could you use this?

:- Doug.

We are already human.

:- Doug.

Let’s together jump in.

:- Doug.

We are the hungry.

:- Doug.

I choose to make myself available.

:- Doug.

We are already in the conversation.

:- Doug.

Are we already here?

:- Doug.

We are all already about getting persons in community to converse.

:- Doug.

Make of your life a participation in our life.

:- Doug.

A person lives with other persons; an individual, an ego, “lives” separated. An individual is about a narrowing survival; a person enlarges the human calling.

:- Doug.

In conversation, I can surrender myself and still take my unique stand: what is surrendered is my ownership, my ego; what stands is wat I discover in the conversation about my wholer self, and about the self between us of which I am partaking.

:- Doug.

How odd! In the morning, women put things on their faces, men scrape things off, and both think they look better for it. Yet this is an emblem of our times, yes? For we are so separated from each other that we cannot show our faces to one another…nor to ourselves.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 750

G*d the pond
we the pair of ducks
who keep coming back
to splash and play and swim
gently, easily
silently in love

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People want the good conversation, the one which opens. Therefore, we can take them by the hand until they are able to venture on their own.

:- Doug.

If you sustain other life, yours will be sustained.

:- Doug.

With G*d we participate!

:- Doug.