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Do you have a work life
or a life’s work?

:- Doug.

Could conversing create work, business, jobs? You betcha!

:- Doug.

Our skins do not define our edges. Conversing creates.

:- Doug.

Neither nature nor nurture have made our world: they are in conversation with each other and it is the conversation that creates.

:- Doug.

What are we for? We are for making the world better, making ourselves better for the larger Us, making a better universe. We are not called to a prescribed better, but to invent what works, to try it out and see. It is similar to crowdsourcing: asking the same question of many beings and see what works well for the whole. Then move on from there for more. It is less a directive, top down kind of purposing, but a larger picture, love-generated and -generating purpose that calls us in a direction: not to a goal, but toward a horizon always turning out more horizons for ever.

:- Doug.

Everywhere I look I see divinity.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1213

My pain and difficulty
in this new field of study:
to find the things I know
just aren’t so!

Please pass it on.

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You and the father are one.

:- Doug.

We had thought for eons, for instance our planting seeds in rows, that we were controlling our environment. But all along our environment provided seeds and rains and lightning and we were reacting to it as much as it to us. Back and forth: a respiration. A conversation.

:- Doug.

If we interact with our environment and over time get better at it, may we then choose to evolve responsibly? In what ways might our evolution become more responsive and responsible?

:- Doug.

The more we are particular
The more we are universal
For every particular
Is universal
In a particular way
& this is the thread
The runs through
Us

:- Doug.

We have a meaningless life in a purposeless, random universe—if we live only on reason. But when we move beyond to something larger—heart and spirit—goodness and beauty—here we have hope.

:- Doug.

An opportunity to sort
Why do we humans seek to sort?
To find integrity, our one truth
The thing that matters, that makes it all hang together
Beauty?
Order? Order as beauty?
Love? Direction? Meeting?
Meeting again?
A way through chaos?
Things to discard, things to keep
Things to lighten our load so we can move out into sacred possibilities
A pole to keep our spirit homing to one day return from our adventure
Sorting implies something existing & knowledge or experience of the something
Sorting knows little of possibility
& yet sorting has its place in freeing us to see possibility

:- Doug.

Is order a lower, er, order word for beauty? Is beauty the subjective experience of engaging living?

:- Doug.

One gift of worshiping is that from here we can see more. Vibrant, living possibility upon possibility opening for us to engage.

:- Doug.

We live in a world just right for life—just the right oxygen, light, temperature and the myriad other necessities of life—or do we? Is it just possible that life is so stubborn it will flower wherever it finds itself?

:- Doug.

What would be a more humane way to catch fish than hooks?

:- Doug.

If you put your nose in, your ears will follow, and then your heart.

:- Doug.

Friend Karen Valencic asks a fun question: “If you could add a new wonder to the world, what would it be?”

For me, the wonder would be conversing. Everyone conversing.

:- Doug.

What if our stories started “This upon a time”?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1212

I set before you life & death
—in dealing with your food,
your clothes, your transportation,
your housing, your conversation
—in how you meet a stranger,
an other, another creature,
human or otherwise
—Choose life—
Can you accept differences?
Can you make room for all politics?
All solutions?
Can you still defend to the death
the right of that one to say that?
Can you allow life for all earthlings?
Can you be large?
Can you be intimate?
Can you let the world be large?

Please pass it on.

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I must not seek business, but busy myself with something that matters beyond my life.

:- Doug.

As all caring humans what matters to us?

:- Doug.