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Footprints in the Windsm # 1244–Something entirely new under the sun

Footprints in the Windsm # 1244

Our conversational work is 1. exchange of information; 2. exchange of fellow-feeling; 3. inventing responses; 4. inventing who-we-are-together; 5. inventing our very selves.

What I am trying to say goes beyond whatever we pay attention to, whatever we inquire into, grows. It is not simply a variation on what was already there, and stop. It is potentially something entirely new under the sun. It is making way for something to emerge. It is making room for the unexpected. It is increasing capacity. It is creating new capacity.


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Reinvent our wheel

Have you ever seen a neighborhood baseball game, where the kids are different ages, different abilities, different sizes, but they still want to play? Here, this tree will be home plate, that tree across the way second base, and we’ll put this stick as first base and that pile of stones will be third. Now for four year old Suzie we’ll stand up closer and pitch underhanded to her, and she can use this closer places as her bases. They pick teams, and they have fun.

They have reinvented the game of baseball, to fit them, to serve them.

So many times we take the “solutions” (who wants to be dissolved?) of the “experts,” who are nothing but passers-by, and apply them to ourselves. Sometimes, perhaps more times than we realize, we need to reinvent our wheel.

:- Doug.

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Where every one of us is a doer….

In our activist world, where every one of us is a doer, to take a moment out to contemplate is profoundly disorganizing.

:- Doug.

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Don’t count on the VA

Don’t count on the Veteran’s Administration or even Medicaid for all your Long-Term Care. You still need love: a kind touch, a cold wash cloth.

:- Doug.

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