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Footprints in the Windsm # 848

Footprints in the Windsm # 848

We are here not to convert but to converse.


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Rhythm with one another. Now.

We can get into rhythm with one another. Now. Conversation, deeply engaged, is our way—point & counterpoint, wind & fury, rhythm, rhythm.

:- Doug.

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Otherness affects us two ways in this hour

Otherness affects us two ways in our hour. One is where we see others as alien, things, not like us. Two is where we see others as the ones to undertake to change things, not us. Both hurt.

:- Doug.

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Community engaging community

We are Community Disorganizers, engaging people in their community.

:- Doug.

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Conversifying the world

How may we conversify the world?

Please help me refine and mold this concept of conversifying.

People are busy. It will take work to find the right people. We will need to explain and search all over. People have their own projects, and so we need to work with them within those projects.

So what is the hook that will get people conversing about conversing?

Perhaps we need to find the activists, see what needs doing, talk about the need of conversing, and lead into the need of conversifying.

The way to get people engaged is to engage them one on one. You do not have time to do that all. I do not have time. Instead, we need to engage others who will engage others. We need to learn from each other how to do this, we need to make up new ways to fit the new situations we meet every day in a changing worldscape. So we need each other, across projects. We need to talk up talking up, we need to conversify across boundaries, we need to learn and apply and cross-pollinate.

Then too, if we get our volunteers working on more than one project, they can see efficiencies and ways to work together, to make effectivities.

The key is finding ways to engage others, and spread the engaging. The conversifying is about spreading the engaging.

:- Doug.

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With both hands

We must grasp life with both hands or we do not have it. One hand only, right brain or left alone, is not enough. We must plunge in, not wading but swimming, nothing held back. But we want to hold back. Why? Fear? Something more to the bone? Fear and greed are other sides of the same coin. Yet we can never hold anything. We can only become, grow, transform. It is the thread that is the real us, not the knots. More truly, it is the pattern of the threads when they touch and move to touch elsewhere that is us: the melody and harmony and rhythm, not notes written on the page nor individual notes struck plucked or blown. The continuity of us is only past; the real us is is-ing.

:- Doug.

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