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Everyone enfolds everyone.

We are a part of all we meet, we meet a part of us in all we meet. We are clod of the same earth, breath of the same wind.

There is only one. We are a part, enfolded, enfolding.

:- Doug.

Is there a way to see this differently?

:- Doug.

Not because it’s the right thing do I want diversity but because it is the optimal.

:- Doug.

The meeting yesterday was full of depth and especially of seeking after depth. But we did not attain it. What little we did attain we did not sustain.

Humans many not be able to sustain such depths.

If that is so, what is the air for which we must come to the surface? Perhaps it is purposeful action. We must put sinew and blood into it. We must body forth. Perhaps it is catching each others’ wrists and pulling together. Taking it out of our solitary heads and putting it into our working and meeting hands—this is life, continuing.

:- Doug.

Competition is a world view, word view, that is not necessarily in line with what really is. What really is?

:- Doug.

The earth is running out.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1013

The gifts of reflection: 1. discovery of unexpected aspects of an issue; 2. discovery of unexpected connections within an issue and to other issues; 3. discovery of unexpected connections within this people; 4. uncovering of the processes at work in this system; 5. use of diverse tools to work on the issue; 6. discovery of unexpected wholenesses; 7. parallel processing on the issue with all the several mental faculties in the room; 8. access to the memories of many people; 9. access to the collective mental processing capability; 10. access to the collective indwelling memory of the group; 11. accessing each of these gifts for the activities of seeing and knowing and doing; 12. assimilation for individual understanding and for group action; 13. closer access to the process of emergence; 14. access to coordination; 15. access to the intelligence of what steps and persons are necessary and how to assemble them to get good action. Why would we not want to plug into all this?

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What of the old order is no longer relevant? What no longer fits reality?—The reality our scientists and thinkers are opening to us?

:- Doug.

The answer to anger, for me, seems to be this: No, it is not fair. But who ever said that anything has to be fair? Things are as they are. Meet them as they are. Try to change them, yes, but do not bring unnecessary heat. Bring instead heart.

:- Doug.

Invite without ceasing.

:- Doug.

Flow and process
is the
Way
Now make

:- Doug.

G*d is not one
apart from us
rather
with us
I am there that
I am there
of us
one

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1012

Life means we have to spend time with each other.

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Can we be without know? Can we do without know? Can we know without either? Can we be without the other two? Or do?

:- Doug.

Information and knowledge are not the same as application.

Someone recently remarked that taking a shower is a difficult thing for a person with dementia to do: it takes many mental steps and processes and a coordination of them which is sometimes beyond their abilities. A towel must be laid out. Soap and shampoo placed within reach. The drain must be opened, the shower curtain drawn, the hot and cold water turned on and then tempered, the water redirected to the shower head, and only then must one step in. Then the body is rinsed, then soap applied, then rinsed again, then shampoo, then rinse again, then the shower turned off, then the curtain opened, then the towel retrieved and the drying process begun. Oh, did we remember to set out a bath mat to step onto? Quite a process, and an intelligence we do not all always have.

It takes another step to put information and knowledge to use. Beyond that, it takes a different intelligence: an intelligence of what steps and persons are necessary and how to assemble them to get good action.

:- Doug.

Group process is somewhat akin to putting together a jigsaw puzzle: it is easier to do in a group. Someone starts working on edges, another seeks out the corners, someone starts putting together pieces that fit with each other. The difference is that with group work, there is no predetermined design, no picture on the box to tell us what it “should” look like, and the pieces fit or almost fit in many different configurations.

:- Doug.

Was Jesus one of the lost sheep of the house of Israel?

:- Doug.

Yours is in the mind of G*d: listen.

:- Doug.

What is the community conversation you see as needed these days?

:- Doug.

I am serving reflective conversers. Who are they? They are lost, hurting, in distress. They are seeking conversation—what they find is precious—but finding little. They are the ones starting conversations. They are the ones telling stories. They are the ones asking questions. They are the ones with an issue. They are the ones gathering people. We are the ones sitting to the side, not knowing how.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1011

This too is a gift of G*d: to see with my eyes and mind and heart and community.

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Open space is inviting to the gift of time.

:- Doug.

G*d is interwoven in all and every, yet to pray and thank as some folks do leaves me hollow. All things work together, but they are still things. What I seek is G*d in meeting.

:- Doug.