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Life caroms

:- Doug.

There is nothing that says it all
Life is always moving
We wake to a new world each morning
Since nothing is fixed
Flowers and dreams still bloom

:- Doug.

What is on the edge of your thinking?

:- Doug.

History is more of a drift-story.

:- Doug.

What is the purpose of scaling? To work together; To see ourselves in context. To work together in context. Context includes and requires the macroscope.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 973

The optimal size of a working group is the number of people who can sit around a common pot of food and dip their hands in.

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In human dynamics, there may be no catalysts: we are all changed meeting.

:- Doug.

Diversity ensures sparks
Passion gives us particular people
Live questions ensure passion
Practicality contributes responsibility
Macroscope adds compassion, one direction

= Beyond self-organizing to co-originating

:- Doug

Macroscopic = love = life

:- Doug.

Is it possible to know all these at the same time: person, vector, world?

:- Doug.

What if compassion were not something to be learned or developed, rather only uncovered, freed?

:- Doug.

Let us take things to scale—human scale.

:- Doug.

There are two ways of seeing emergence: 1.) as coming from the pieces and systems present; and 2.) as being given existence by them.

The betweens might be part of what co-arises, or they might cause the arising.

So the path does not arise to meet the footsteps, nor the footsteps emerge from the path, but each brings forth the other.

Is it weak emergence: pre-existing persons creating a made to order world? Is it strong emergence: the setting and the persons and the work giving simultaneous birth to one another?

It probably can be whichever we choose to see at any given time.

What difference can all this make? It can give courage to act because we know that action is all there is and our actions will always bring something forth.

We can use this: bringing people together, putting them in the pressure cooker, adding a little heat (in the form of live questions). You don’t invite, no one will come, nothing will be doing. Invite me, I’ll show up, we’ll bring forth.

:- Doug.

I sing the way people
create their world together

:- Doug.

Arising can be used in the sense of revealing something already present (a weak form?), and in the sense of coming into being (a strong form?).

:- Doug.

Life ever seeks liveliness
Liveliness means giving your best
For the good of the whole

:- Doug.

Anything & anyone alone
is incapable of any task
—without a bridge to another—

:- Doug.

Life is only about the betweens. We are only alive when we are interacting with our environment. Conversation is this betweens: touching each other.

:- Doug.

This might be my point of departure, to some extent: the pressure cooker of groups working together works perhaps precisely in that it enacts betweens.

Betweens come from attention and intention—meaning one another, hearing one another.

It might also be seen the other way round: betweens enact the persons involved, creating them new beings. A mutual enacting, a lived history, a lived story.

:- Doug.

Construction and seeing might be the same thing, like space and time. So too making the world and hearing.

Listening I do to another
Its locus is outside my skin
Hearing is we together
Its locus is inside our skins

:- Doug.

More than path finders, we are path layers.

:- Doug.

Love has a direction: love pulls us out.

:- Doug.