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Meet, invite, engage. Open to others and see what is possible. It may be best simply to engage on a surface level: think supper with friends after a hard day. But more often than we realize it might be movement towards accomplishing good. Aim for the higher in all conversation.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1144

A great disintegration is happening in our times. We are so set on chasing the goals of money, as if goals were all there is, all that matters. We are chasing off in a confused mass of different directions, picking coins and bills off the ground, and bumping over people with canes and walkers, people who are working for us, little children and babes in arms, killing old people and children and pet dogs and fish with our oil spilling and radioactive spilling, and we go on thinking this is normal. Is this the norm? Is this what we choose? Is this our standard? Is this our highest and best? Are we capable of becoming human?

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What criticism and grief can I offer? Is this screaming the best you can do? Is throwing people out as garbage the best that is in us? Is greed more noble than sharing? Is competition more noble than cooperation? When the crisis arrives should we scatter or come together? Do others really have no good heads, no good hearts?

What hope and promise? A new community. Dealing constructively and conscientiously with our felt challenges. Working groups established. Blood, sweat, toil, tears and laughter. Wholeness approached…maybe met.

:- Doug.

Without change, without hope.

:- Doug.