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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1187

Elder, at the pinnacle of adult
knowing, you are called to jump into
these wider openings you now can see
so to grow us by community

Please pass it on.

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Conversation is a gift of ourselves—
persona or essence—
lie or truth
we know which makes the world
which unmakes

Do we give the reality
or the cheap substitute?
Which life do we choose to live?
To give?

In each among
we choose

:- Doug.

Pain inflicted blocks gifts
Remorse digs out the deepest path to the gifts
The most whole living comes in
Giving gifts widely among
Gifts that increase the whole’s interconnections

:- Doug.

If pain serves mainly to stop our gifts, then amonging gets them flowing and flowering. Remorse serves a function of releasing stopped gifts. Giving generates; amonging flowers. Both generate: Giving generates obligation—a need to share; amonging generates opportunities. Giving and amonging are inexhaustible—the more we give among the more gifts and amongs generated. What would you most like to give the world?

:- Doug.

When we inflict (give) pain on another, it creates an obligation on us. When we receive a gift such as life, health, skills, it creates an obligation on us to share it. In the case of pain, we have blocked another’s flow and so we are also blocked. Plus gives forward obligations, Minus stops.

:- Doug.

What do I need to live? G*d nexus, friends, food, clothing, shelter, transportation. Do any of these require money?

But my mind plays tricks. It says I want this home (so I “have to” pay this mortgage, I want my own transportation (so I “have to” have my own car), I must maintain my reputation (so I “have to” pay the bills and fulfill the promises I made in a different era). And on.

What is really necessary? Back to the first question, eh?

:- Doug.