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Footprints in the Windsm # 911

Footprints in the Windsm # 911

A major issue with asking people to attend a several-day event to improve their community is the fear that “We cannot ask people to give so much time.” Actually we must ask people to give—themselves, their time. The value they get out is precisely from what they give. So let’s be bold to ask their commitment—as a gift to them. And if only a few come, remember that we want quality foremost.


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best ever happened?

What is the best thing that ever happened to you?

:- Doug.

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Less action

When people are heard
there are two effects
More action is taken
Less action is taken

Less because we discover
what we really needed was
to be truly heard

More because effective action jells
out of meeting:
something happens that would not
absent caring people conversing

Caring about what we’re hearing
Caring about whom we’re hearing

:- Doug.

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Take to the seats!

You may
take to the streets
if you wish
I’d rather
take to the seats

:- Doug.

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Caring people are key

Caring people are key. When you get together people who care—love—follow their heartbreak—then possibility emerges. It is as if one who cares is shot at a nucleus (cor, core, coeur, heart) of others and from this hydrogen explosion unpredicted amounts of energy are released.

So many times in our meetings we are working on things few if any of us care about—it is for responsibility alone—the latrines must be cleaned, the garbage taken out—that we are meeting. If we saw that it affected us all in what we care about, then we would be world-changers.

:- Doug.

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common ground for environmentalists?

What is possible among caring people concerned about environment? Where is our common ground for action?

:- Doug.

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