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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 895

How would I like to respond?

“What don’t you know and how will you learn it?” There is more that I don’t know than I do. The simple answer is that I will ask you, including my so-called opponent. Together. In that one word, Together, is more. The important thing is to keep asking questions, for in questions is pregnancy, is new birth, is life of our community and country. Answers stop the questioning, stop the progress. Questions open us up, questions open us out. Together we have wisdom. So I ask you to take a few moments to ask yourself, What don’t we know? What are our really big questions? I ask you now, in silence, to find the larger questions, the questions to enliven us.

Then I would shut up for the rest of my allotted time.

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Friend, meet, encounter with me. Commune. This is more important than magic tricks, responding like a puppet when I pull your strings, real or imaginary. I think there are strings, and some are real. But for a friend, we ask help when we need it, give it when needed, asked. The help may be exactly what we ask, it may be something else. Love is fulfilling, ever fulfilling.

:- Doug.

Love is the stuff that pulls us together. Then even in conflict there is love, because we will not let the other wrestler go. Something brings us together, and that something has another name: love. It is what attracts us, draws us together. It is not about getting money from them, but respect: love.

:- Doug

One lawyer says
It is all about money
It is not:
It is about love
It is about how people
Choose to be with each other:
Growlingly, it-ly,
Aloofly, nastily,
Or kindly, respectfully,
Treating each other well,
As persons

:- Doug.

I am stirring up things for my friends: stirring up other people, inviting people to the pot, the cook with the 4 stones, asking them to throw in their carrots and beets and pieces of meat, nuts and corn and nourishment and yes, love.

I am a cook. I can only put in what you bring. I can only suggest flavors: you choose what to put in the pot, what to withhold.

:- Doug.

You can use your computer without ever connecting to the Internet, but would you want to?

You can live your life withdrawn from others, but O what you’d be missing!

:- Doug.