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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 859

The promise and the hope of conversation: this is the place where work is needed. This idea of community as conversation is as strange as the idea of living without masters to feed us must have been to the Israelites in Egypt. This idea of we are in charge is the same idea, in fact. The setting only is different: we are chained to mortgages and jobs; they were chained to brick furnaces and tasks. We are given ineffectual work to do with materials impossible: debt as money, pulling more living out of natural resources while poisoning our air and water and food; they were given no straw for their bricks.

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My coeur work is community. This says My coeur work is making a better world, now. I invite people to create small groups to Converse and Work toward a better world, now. Converse in this setting means to design and create and more. This better world is discontinuous with the present one, the one of numb, the one of been there done that, the one of despair. This better world is of the Big New, of Promise.

:- Doug.

Much as New sells, we are scared of it. If you bring me a New improved product that will help my life in a little way—say remove a few more specks of dandruff—I will rush to buy it. But if your New will change my life in a major way (for the better or for ill, it makes no difference), I will run the other way! I do not even want to think about what it will do. Leave me alone. It does not matter why I fear it—the energy I will have to invest, the risk it will turn out badly, unpredictability—fear involves neither reason nor why. Only hope moves us toward the Big New. Hope also has neither reason nor why—uninvited, Hope overtakes us.

:- Doug.