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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 962

Every tool finds its place
Hugs seek a level of their own
Life it is life it is
Life rolls in & life flows out
Here is life like it is
Bread to share stay a while
Rest your head the world can wait
Every friend brings us home

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A center, a focal point: from here life radiates.

We are then about generating more life. And the way to do that is to provide this center, this focal point, this conversation.

Then in their way, debates and discussions also serve this, but not as well as conversation and collaboration, for debates and discussion give us a stopping point, and miss the opening out.

:- Doug.

Are the spaces necessary? The place for the fire to flare up, the field into which to emerge, the membrane or narrow ridge where an entity forms just for an instant—the butterfly who exists but for a night and a day? The spaces are the and in one and one make two—necessary but unseen. Totally present and absolutely invisible. But more than present, essential. We cannot meet without space. When we converse on the phone, where is the conversation? What is the sound of one hand clapping? There is none, because the clap requires the other, and even that is not enough, but essential is the meeting. What is the conversation of one person meeting? One personality of that one person meeting?

:- Doug.

Nature loves life. Nature craves life. So the new species will have one thing we can be sure of: more life.

:- Doug.

I try to avoid the word discussion, for to me it rhymes with percussion and concussion, and I do not wish to inflict such violence!

:- Doug.

In conversation entities form for one instant….

:- Doug.

I hear that you value….

:- Doug.