FootprintsintheWind.com

What is the world up to these days? Is it going well or not? What are you about? What’s your work in this world? Is there match?

:- Doug.

What kind of world are you creating?

:- Doug.

Enticing people into a larger world—of their own making.

:- Doug.

We’re about making a larger human-sized world, a few persons at a time.

:- Doug.

I’m about collaboration and conversation and school boards and global warming and people for people who have nobody and self transcendence and peak experiences and getting community back to communitying….

:- Doug.

Conversation that matters is about self-transcendence with a direction: toward becoming part with the larger world, interplaying.

:- Doug.

We are fed by the
Possibility that we might be
Our hunger draws
Us yet again to converse

:- Doug.

What was the peak experience of your life? Have you had ecstasies? Have you experienced real beauty or excellence or justice? When suddenly things changed?

:- Doug.

How can we bring fun to making community? Fun is the purpose. No, communitying is the purpose. Communitying is fun; fun is communitying; fun and communitying are the same?

:- Doug.

Jumping off points for our conversations with divers people:

Right brain—peak experiences
Activists, right brain—emergence
Activists, left brain—responsibility for community Business—Peak performance

:- Doug.

We are given backbone and brain, will and muscle: we face G*d and say our mind and heart: we yet live and G*d responds to us, changes. Little children are not simply disciplined by their parents but their parents are also affected by them, change, grow.

:- Doug.

Clay has no structure of its own
therefore G*d is no sculptor
of us

:- Doug.

Conversations that matter open space for peak experiences: giving wholly, living wholly, being the one you came here to be, taking critical part in something larger.

:- Doug.

Opening space for conversations that matter leads naturally toward increased self respect. This may stem from being heard (hearing others’ respect for one’s self) and hearing the good one offers and bubbling to the surface more of the good of one’s self. Whatever the cause, conversation leads to more humor, coming together, ideas, and if Maslow is correct, beauty. Said the other way around: that conversation is best which opens the participants to laughing, contributing, loving, living, opening, idiosyncrasy-ing, truth-telling, beauty, good-making.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 914

Stay. Play. Hear. Now.

Please pass it on.

© c 2009, Learning Works, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Easy reprint permissions: 574/291-0022, or by e-mail to mailto:Doug AT FootprintsInTheWind.com. Back issues available at http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com

The realm of life is
water flowing
eddying, cascading
splashing, crashing, lapping
working, quenching, filling

:- Doug.

I have come that
People live their lives wholly
We, part of each other
Live to, with each other
We are all come that
Persons live lives wholly

:- Doug.

The work of G*d is
Loving producing living
The work of persons is

:- Doug.

Risk occasions for living.

:- Doug.

It is love that sustains! The old formulas say that you sustain all life. But they do not say how. It is like magick or like a king with an army all about. But this insight helps me to see you as sustaining through love, which is you. The glue that holds it all together, that keeps all life living, producing more and more life. And that is our task: create more life!

That is the task of opening space: creating life among the bored, under the grey cloth, the dust of existing-not-yet-living: creating life! Activating life!

This is peak experience: to live! Wholly, fully, interactively, inter-livingly! And when we engender peak experience we produce life. It is simply about life.

Engendering peak experiences producing life!

:- Doug.

I am working out my relationship with you, the divine! I am dancing out of the mist with you, O mystery!

:- Doug.

Perhaps we don’t so much want to “take things to scale,” as to make a way to realize at once magnitude and direction: make larger positive change. In a word vectorize.

:- Doug.

Nexus of caring
+ Being heard
= Raised actual value of one’s self

Conversation
+ Truth told
= Bringing the ideal within reach

Nexus of caring
+ Diversity of peoples
= Unitive insight

:- Doug.