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Life is not after identity, a billion cells collectively called Doug or Linda. The cells, this collection, this thing called life, cares not a gnat’s eyelash about identity. What they seek is life. Life meets and responds, joins with other life to go on living, ever more living. Living.

Living suggests touching as well as being touched, choosing, acting upon. Living more.

Living dances with.

And yet: the system does self-reference. Paradox lives. Life is paradox.

:- Doug.

Our politics flows from our world view: politicians speak back to us what we were already thinking, only saying it out loud. In our day we fear the world and the others in it because we see only bliss and disaster, mainly disaster. The same is true of our businesses: if we do not sell more we go out of business, you lose your job and die; fear death and sell!

The truth is there are 1,000 right ways to live, to organize our collective efforts for better. There is more danger in thinking there are only two choices. Let us open our eyes and ways 1,000-fold.

:- Doug.

As energy bumps energy: flash! The flash is what we see as a person, yet the truth is our seeing is done in our brain more than in our eye, for it is in here that meaning and organization are attached.

:- Doug.

If electrons pop into existence when two fields intersect, then what of persons? Persons are (at least in the eyes of their conversation partners of the moment) the sum total of the betweens, chutes, ladders, and conveyances between them and what is conveyed from one to the other. We can talk about our jobs and businesses, our grandchildren, or about what is in our hearts. Each one of these brings out a different person. So we do pop as persons when these fields of interest and passion intersect: weakly if we share little of the energy charge of our lives, greatly if we share a great deal of the force within which we breathe.

:- Doug.

The dance
The dance
The lord of the dance
Become the lord of your dance
Enter in, all the world’s a dance
And you the lord of yours
Creating all around our dance

:- Doug.

Participation is a field
in each room we enter
telephone sings to me

:- Doug.