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The trouble with balance is it demands of us we find and apply the right pressure on each side of the teeter-totter, on each aspect of our lives: It throws us right back into the middle of our myth that we are in control of it all.

:- Doug.

The suet in the bird feeder does its job just sitting there, turning in the wind. We humans do our jobs with more action involved, yet still we can learn from suet: do the actions without emotions (like guilt or getting frazzled) that work against the actions.

:- Doug.

The greatest problem we have is precisely this notion of being lone rangers out in the world. It is something the Rays highlighted in Cultural Creatives. We think we are alone, and we have not really made the effort to bring people together. We have not even thought about how to bring people together.

:- Doug.

Activists are such because they activate other people, act with others. If we continue to leave people where they are, one to each automobile, then we get no where. We get further when we come together, which is exactly what activists are doing. So why force them to sit still and be an audience? They not only have twitchy feet, but they are there to meet each other. The breaks and the hallways are at least as important as the speeches and auditoria. The question to ask is Why is this so? What is really going on? What is working? How can we do more of it?

:- Doug.

Why do we want to hold this meeting? I’d guess the answer will be something like informing people of what’s going on in their community, in a big picture way in the morning and in specifics in the afternoon. But that is not what we want: Why would you want that? Here we start to dig into things like to make the community better. And why do you want that? Why and why again. Find out what people want.

:- Doug.