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Goals and purposes: People can use the words anyway they choose and I choose not to argue about the meanings. They can mean what they want for others: they are welcome to their own words. For me, I am not after ends, not even intermediate ends. I am after directions—good, true, beautiful, and all the rest. In open-ended headings I feel belonging. Anything we set our hearts on today is tomorrow gone in the airs. But if I set a course not for a destination but a destiny, then I am with we are, then the world opens up as home and belonging.

:- Doug.

Seek not to persuade: rather to find the common deeper self in each other. Touch here.

:- Doug.

Let us spend our time where it can make a difference, learning and creating the ways to elicit this dignity of and reverence for life from people.

:- Doug.

How deep can we go? If as we go deeper we reach the places where we are connected with our fellows, then deep is infinite. There is an infinity of ways we are connected with each other as humans; and with our fellow creatures—so this includes cats and trees, clouds and sheds, cows and crows, pavement, dreams, movements, prayers. The ground of our being is here, the ground that wants us, needs us, means us, meets us. How deep can we go? It is deeper all the way down. And plenty of turtles.

:- Doug.

Since G*d is distributed and not diffuse, we can aim our conversations to a point in space and time, a person.

:- Doug.