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Even if we are not the experts we can imagine and envision; that, activated, is far more valuable.

:- Doug.

All knowledge is provisional.

:- Doug.

The truest courage
to be the truest you

:- Doug.

I work to be the
most true, beautiful, and good Douglas Germann
I can be

:- Doug.

The highest courage is to be your actual self.

:- Doug.

Maybe the juicy question question is a way to engage people.

:- Doug.

Who has a juicy question?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1567

This morning I read about the White Tulip movement in Estonia: bringing people together who have come to distrust one another, by placing white tulips in public places as a show of respect, dignity and peace for one another. The writer said We may have had different histories but we have the same future.

And I wondered: Do we have a common future? That is the question given to us for this hour. If we decide No, what sadness! We move toward hate and insulation and shriveling. If we decide Yes, then all possibility opens!

The question is one asked of us in our country too: Do we have a shared future, or will we shatter? Will we turn our backs on one another, on whom we could have been?

Do we choose to have a common future?

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Today: tease out the under-spoken.

:- Doug.

The meeting is
The start
Of the questions

:- Doug.

Meet with your whole being
Even if the other does not
Get it

:- Doug.

Walking about we converse
Conversing we are
Turned loose.

:- Doug.

When Jesus entered his ministry he increased the number of contacts in which he could go deep with people merely by walking about.

:- Doug.

Hear your way deeper.

:- Doug.

What could help our conversation get to meaningful?

:- Doug.

Day by day I am getting wrinklier and wrinklier!

:- Doug.

Balance seems too much work.

:- Doug.

How do humans deal with loss? We go on to something else.

:- Doug.

Can you find a way to face with equanimity the losses of advancing age: companions, physical function, mental function?

:- Doug.

How do I get a meaningful conversation started with you?

:- Doug.

Every day unfamiliar new wrinkles!
You have to do something new
If your life is to count more

:- Doug.

Did you hear what you said? is a good deepener, even if you did not hear what they said.

:- Doug.

Hear. That’s enough.

:- Doug.