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Christ is both within and without me. When I hold you in the light of Christ, I am at least holding you in the light of the all of Christ that is within me.

:- Doug.

One sky
Ho!
Big heart

:- Doug.

Birds must be curious creatures, else how did they find my new bird feeder?

:- Doug.

Do something, however small. Together, publicly. Others see what’s possible. Futures open.

:- Doug.

You are the salt of the earth; be salty! Spice things up! You can make the world better in your neighborhood!

:- Doug.

You have said “You can’t fight City Hall.” I say you can lead City Hall; you can open their minds and hearts.

:- Doug.

You together have the ability to take charge for your neighborhood. You are the salt of the earth.

:- Doug.

We bring a miracle: we show you how together you can make miracles in your neighborhood, healing one little corner of the world. The miracle we bring is the miracle of ordinary people together.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1120

What makes it different this time around?

Have we not always been on the edge of shattering? Perhaps in small ways—within our tribe or grouping or nation. But now we have a whole world and the technology to kill not just a handful at a time, but to utterly destroy ourselves and our world. And we have the news and the connecting points to see it as it is happening. We are becoming aware of all of the inhumanity around us, and that it does not live up to our standards for humanity.

If we know something is good or bad and we do not even speak up, we are worthless, we are no better than they who do the inhumane thing.

Do we have the duty to act well? Do we take up our responsibility?

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Let us send out healed healers: people who will heal our ways of meeting one another so we spread taking charge for our communities.

:- Doug.

We must be on a mission to help each other heal our ways of meeting so we take responsibility for our world, together. We cannot let George do it: no George left the world better after he took his hands off the helm than we could if we together took responsibility, now.

:- Doug.

People need help. We must help.

:- Doug.

This is the miracle of stone soup: humanizing our world.

:- Doug.

If we want this to be a more meaningful world we need to bring meaning to our every day. We need to develop a program of meaning which we work, daily.

:- Doug.

9-11: We have an anniversary coming up, and oh if we could talk with one another on the level of one people!

:- Doug.

Where is community engagement important to you?

:- Doug.

everywhere between
the center of the universe is
everywhere between
the center of the conversation is
everywhere between
and so are we—the us of we—
everywhere between

:- Doug.

Conversation is natural, the thing we most desire and least do. It is what we did when first in love—talked about important stuff. We opened up, we shared the most vital, we learned ourselves and each other. It was simply a variety of significant conversation.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1119

I see a shattering. I see a society too busy to notice or care. The shattering comes from people not being heard. The recent shootings and killings in Tucson speak to us of assault weapons being legal, of people who have mental conditions who shut themselves off, of a society that allows and encourages people to shut themselves off from others, of a political debate where the norm is vitriol. Have we grown too populous to care for one another? Have we grown too much in the direction of Dollars and Numbers and Competition to care for one another?

Can we figure out how to meet one another? Can we bring us humanly closer in our very diversity?

I see a shattering
as of ice
can we
will we
warm enough
to one another
in time enough
to melt
our shattering?

Please pass it on.

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Could the living room or the kitchen table be the hotbed of engaging everyday people in taking responsibility for their world?

:- Doug.

The quality of a community is told in the quality of its conversation.

:- Doug.

With whom would you like to converse? With whom would conversation be good?

:- Doug.

The problems come when we start thinking of them as “those people.”

:- Doug.