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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1608

For several months as I am approaching my 70th birthday I find that I am welcoming the badge “elder.” I am choosing to ask for help or to hire work done—lawn mowing for instance—though I still am able. I choose. Yesterday I did some light electrical work, today I’ll do some plumbing and yard work—engaging mind and large and small muscles. I enjoy good health, energy, and the motive to get good things done. There are positives to being an elder. Lengthening sight. Desire for the good of all humankind. Knowing every this passes, things get better, the best is found in loving engagement with our world.

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Conversation alive is an open system.

:- Doug.

What do the laws of thermodynamics—conservation of energy, constant entropy—say about conversation?

:- Doug.

Conversing is distributed, lateral, and collaborative. The more we converse, the more distributed, lateral, and collaborative we become.

:- Doug.

Converse: change the world. A wider conversation is a changed world.

:- Doug.

Conversing is the only way to change the world. Indeed, look at the Internet: the sole fact that people all around are conversing with others without respect to rank, age, color, national boundaries, or any other division is itself changing how we think, and what we think is possible and right. It matters not the subject. Conversing changes thought. Conversing changes us. Conversing is changing the world.

:- Doug.