Archive for October 9th, 2013

The Rule of Ear:

The Rule of Ear: If you can’t see my ears, I can’t hear you.

:- Doug.

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POST is a shoehorn

This POST is not the answer. No document is. It is a shoehorn. The doctors, nurses, social workers you work with want to be compassionate, but they don’t know how to start the conversation. Let’s make it part of how we practice. POST can be the way to ease our foot into the shoe.

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Windsm # 1363–So I deliberately give up knowing

Footprints in the Windsm # 1363

I cannot know all about spirit as I cannot know all about “my” poem: it is creating its meaning and breaking out on new frontiers, and new conspirators are purposely and accidentally doing the same. So I deliberately give up knowing all about spirit. I invite it to explore me.


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What is the response to meta complexity?

What is the response to growing meta complexity? Invite more into the conversation: more voices, more hearts, more heads. The more of these we have the greater our capacity to comprehend and apprehend the complexity—and apply compassion.

:- Doug.

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Complexity dictates speed

Complexity dictates speed (to cover all the connections in the old time alloted) and increasing complexity (to create shortcuts to cover all the connections in the old time).

:- Doug.

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There will not be time to get used to it

Back when things moved more slowly there were fewer of us, whoever you count as us. When there are two of us there is only one possible relationship. When there are four, and then twenty, the relationships grow exponentially and the relationships start relating to one another. When 7 billion of us, all moving at X kph, how many relationships, how fast? The world is not just faster. It is a different place. Every nanosecond.

An example: our diseases are not just growing immune to our toxins, they are morphing. What used to be acute conditions—cancer, heart disease—are now chronic—they may help kill us, but they take a longer—larger—toll. Consequently we are the first generation to face caring for dying people and for people who need, over decades, our help to breathe and move and shower and eat. Consequently our dis-eases are more complex than in years past. They are different.

I used to think we’d reach a time we’d say “Enough! Stop!” But I no longer think so. Rather we will create ever more quickly (because we love to create and we love speed) complexity and meta complexity. There will not be time to get used to it. Until we get used to it.

:- Doug.

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