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We can never perfect the world. If one being is perfectly healthy, another may die. Things are so interrelated, any touch on the web is felt by another leagues away. But we can hope to heal: to make a whole that is more alive than the sum of its “parts.” There are no parts in life, no species: only one life.

:- Doug.

We cannot cure the world, only heal it; this is a modest task, for the work is complex and will take all of us. Then again, this partakes of particle thinking: yes, as individuals we can do little except salve the wounds and comfort and work in a direction. But together….

:- Doug.

I am sorry that people sometimes push each other away.

:- Doug.

Like the hod-carrier who was building a cathedral, one conversation at a time I’m bringing the universe together.

:- Doug.

Life may not end by a nuclear explosion
Nor yet by our sun flaring out
It might end by stupidity or greed
A broken oil well here
A couple copyrighted & patented viruses there
Soon we have devoured ourselves

:- Doug.