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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1531

Fear the enemy
Love the commonality
Hiding the tactic
Saying who we are the armor
Gathering of brokenness the strength
Conversing the easy courage
How we live our dying the common ground
Fights the halfway up the mountain
Leaving them inconsequential behind the way
Those who care the family
We all want to arrive here: together

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Ill fitting language stretches us.

:- Doug.

Hint more
Say less
Give the hearer space

:- Doug.

A rhythm, a tune, a silence whole
The system entire
Harmonize, O man, O woman!

:- Doug.

So much of my attitude has been a reaction to imagined opposition. But if we turn and face the same direction…, if we hum variations of the same symphony….

It seems that harmony, perhaps itself a result of conversation, is open (it allows for all possibility to express itself), which means there is freedom (from any restrictions, internal or external; to express itself), which is granted to all sides (this is also called respect).

Approaching harmony with the system you are nudging, and hopefully with the system entire, is the way to influence. The more harmony of the nudgers, the more the system entire moves the desired direction.

:- Doug.

Harmony Open → Freedom → both sides (a/k/a respect)

:- Doug.