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We have so many people in the world today, and a growing number, who are seeing the world as one, as larger than just their own family or tribe. This indeed was the view of John Woolman: he was trying to get people to see that they had a responsibility to all the world, not just the people in their family or their Meeting.

:- Doug.

Green Collar South Bend: How can we create our own opportunities?

:- Doug.

A distributed, WEaving G*d gives new meaning to dried religious sayings and formulae: G*d created us; we hide in G*d; G*d in whom we live move and have our being….

The old pictures of lambs and babes and fathers are metaphors, ways of saying the unsayable. So if I hear something larger in them than people standing next to me, that is good.

Panentheism and G*d arising. Arising from humans and rocks and boiling flaming gaseous outpourings. Arising not as by-product but as generator.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 927

Attention is an experience of giving.

Please pass it on.

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Better a mindless work than a heartless.

:- Doug.

There’s a message for you in your prayer.

:- Doug.

What if the world does uncrumple to somewhere near its original size? What if electricity becomes rare, used only for necessary things, and writing and communicating goes to more physical, or maybe more meta-physical ways? What if we are then and there pushed to be more now and here, to meet others face to face, heart to heart? What if we walk and bicycle and use people power to get places, to get things done? What would a world post-electricity, post-fossil power feel like?

:- Doug.

Dying
We are stars
Twinkling on a heart’s edge
A memory’s light embrace
Alive in hope someone sees us
In the dawning

:- Doug.

The people who live in fear
Have seen a great light
& shuddered
& their hearts
They’ve shuttered
But they still
Have hearts

:- Doug.

With a Will
What worlds
Can we
Create?
What ideals
Now populate?
What hearts
Evocate?

:- Doug.

Kindly find what is
inside of me
the eyes the heart asked
this of me
for there is goodly good
in me and beauty
and I know you
kindly see

:- Doug.

We need conflict just as
we need a playmate on the other end
of our teeter-totter
to go opposite us
or there is no go
or there is no fun

:- Doug.

Estate Planning is an inspirational art.

:- Doug.

We must be Willing the generations the important stuff.

:- Doug.

Larger means freeing
Larger means opening
Larger means including
Larger means embracing
Larger means creating
Larger our world

:- Doug.

I’m helping people make the world larger.

:- Doug.

People think that
because they talk
they know how to converse
People think that
because they eat
they know how to run a restaurant
People are so often off

:- Doug.

How did he/she contribute most profoundly to your life?

:- Doug.