Archive for May, 2008

Footprints in the Windsm # 862

Footprints in the Windsm # 862

What makes us think poor people have no good ideas, cannot help their own condition? That if we bring together a million poor, homeless, sick people, there will not be one good idea among them? Ahh, you say, if they had the idea, they would have instituted it.

Well, how do you know? When you are really ill, do you want to get busy and organize people? What if you did not have the skills—did not even know it was possible—to organize people to make a change? What if your whole life had been met with frustration and whatever you did led you to stop trying because trying was futile? What if you were never heard?

We can hear each other. This is the essence of life. When we are heard, we are real to someone. We matter. We are real.

Our main task on this orb is to increase the heard.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on May 31st, 2008 | No Comments »

Possibility mining

Let’s go possibility mining!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 31st, 2008 | No Comments »

We are to be known by

We are to be known by our possibility.

:- Doug.

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to create power in community

To create power in community, as freely as you can, give it away.

:- Doug.

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Cause

We are cause.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 30th, 2008 | No Comments »

Widely, deeply, intricately, and more:

Widely, deeply, intricately and more: the new conversation also must be committedly, accepting of responsibility, investing our very being in the conversation, unconditionally. Like diving off a cliff, there is no turning back, no exchange of value. There is no expectation of profit or success or even being seen. You name the price you are willing to pay to make this ride. You own the project and the project owns you. This is sacred promise.

The new conversation also causes: each consciously acts.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 30th, 2008 | No Comments »

an alternate future

We are about inviting an alternate future.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 29th, 2008 | No Comments »

change the way we converse

The way to change the world is to change the way we converse.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 29th, 2008 | No Comments »

consciously evovle, then play?

If groups around the world are meeting to respond to the breakdown of our institutions by looking for ways for us to consciously evolve, how then shall we work and play? Together?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 29th, 2008 | No Comments »

Best help the world?

How do I best help the world? Whom shall I ask?

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Windsm # 861

Footprints in the Windsm # 861

Turn
To face
One another


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on May 28th, 2008 | No Comments »

Something more than the wealthiest country

This country is founded on something more than the ideal of being the wealthiest country in the world. Indeed that notion only developed in the years of the Depression when we told ourselves, “Never again!” It is the opposite face of the coin from the 60s when we resolved to put a human on another cosmic body. It is now time to re-examine whom we really want to be.

:- Doug.

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Everyone can ask a question, get a conversation going

People who are marginalized, people who have limited physical resources, all people can be leaders. Every one can ask a question, get a conversation going. Everyone can tell a story, even by just sitting or lying there. Be the story, be the question. A reason for living, a season for giving.

:- Doug.

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Manager-mind is holding us back

It is indeed simple: what we have does not work, and will work less and less as we have more and more population compression. What will work is the new community—meeting each other, hearing each other, working together. How’s that working? Is it getting any better? Then we need to change our ways. If you’re headed toward an abyss, repent. Mid course corrections. All very familiar and common sense. But not so common actions. Now we need to get serious about making it better.

This is the work of the people, not the work of manager-mind.

But there are no enemies. We are our own enemy. We have met the enemy and he is us…. Meeting is indeed the key. When we meet, when we see that other is really like us, then progress is possible, not before.

Indeed manager-mind is what is holding us back. We are trying to progress with both feet staying in the same place! That is a recipe for falling on our face!

How to fall on our face:
Keep both feet stuck in place

Manager-mind is the part of us that says, let’s make the best of what we have, let’s get used to what we are getting and what we are doing and just do them faster and better. If we will not dream of a distinctly different future, all we will get is what we have already gotten—until we run out of that road. Someplace, we need to see that something else is better—and possible.

:- Doug.

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Top-down cannot work

This is in fact our setting: top-down cannot work. Things are too complex for one mind or one discipline to solve. We must work together. We must converse—we must speak and hold others to answer us. We must encourage us to find one another, to turn to one another. Creativity comes from the people. The management way of seeing—which aims at rearranging the blocks already in place—lacks the necessary imagination.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 27th, 2008 | No Comments »

What is common among us?

Our work is to ask, What is common among us? What is common among our issues, our passions? What makes us a people? What lifts us above?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 27th, 2008 | No Comments »

Some things unreasonable—

Some things unreasonable—
Compassion
Truth
Reconciliation
Visiting friends
Parties
Dancing
Poetry

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 26th, 2008 | No Comments »

Some times ya gotta be unreasonable

Sometimes ya gotta be unreasonable. It’s the only way to break with the past: the culture that says this is the way things are—from now on. Be reasonable says to be the way things have always been, will always be.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 26th, 2008 | No Comments »

SG + LQ = R —> A

SG + LQ = R —> A

Small Groups plus Live Questions equals Resources producing Action.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 26th, 2008 | No Comments »

Willing to be unreasonable

If you’re not willing to be unreasonable—to do something beyond ordinary and reasonable—then we will move on and you can stay where you are.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 26th, 2008 | No Comments »

There is a calling from the woods

There is a calling from the woods through the opened window this morning: “who?” It is a quiet voice, staccato. I have not heard it before.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 25th, 2008 | No Comments »

Can change the now

A small group of ordinary people can change the now.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 25th, 2008 | No Comments »

of a different order

Meeting is of a different order from debating or chatting or partying or encountering. It is not so much a matter of its purpose, although that is involved, as it is that its character is in the persons’ being. It is a discontinuity. It is not the same kind of conversation, and I cannot apply the word conversation to chat or other variants.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
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