Archive for May 3rd, 2009

Concentrate on the knotty, rocky, tangled and vexed….

Concentrate on the larger, the more complex, the important, the dangerous, the fires.

This is not about larger things, necessarily, but more difficult—knotty, rocky, tangled and vexed.

The answer to such problems is to find a way forward together.

:- Doug.

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Red Adair for people fires:

Yes I am a Community Disorganizer—because we have active hate and distrust, and people face impossible odds. I am Red Adair for people fires.

:- Doug.

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Please tell me: what is the biggest problem in your community

What is the biggest problem of your community today? Where is the largest groaning, bloodshed, pain? What is the most complex impossible problem you face?

:- Doug.

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Ahh! I have been doing two things wrong:

Ahh! So I have been trying to do two things wrong: putting new wine in old skins (explaining and selling); and pouring from tanker trucks into tea cups.

:- Doug.

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We are starting a new movement in American…

We are starting a new movement in American history—neighbor helping neighbor—picking us up by each other’s bootstraps.

:- Doug.

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