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If we say God generated the earth
what then
do we see?

:- Doug.

If people of the seventh generation queried us wouldn’t they speak of responsibility and choice, of challenges we faced and our actions?

:- Doug.

What are the dimensions of wisdom? Whoaernyh can we explore? Whoaernyh is one word to tug us beyond who, what, where, when, why, and how: beyond one lifetime.

:- Doug.

This is confusing, this is conversing. It is supposed to be confusing. If it were not, we would not grow.

:- Doug.

Have a long list of things to do this weekend. Some might carry over to next weekend. There is much to do; I need to make some starts. Move things along.

That is still part of the same philosophy of recent days, nudging: one event changing those to follow. Empty myself of all the tasks-completions, do one thing, make a gesture toward relating, expand the possibilities.

:- Doug.

To see a project as more than one lifetime to complete is more than a larger clock: it is to see oneself as part of a larger whole, a larger entwining.

:- Doug.

Clocks and calendars coordinate
Only humans pay attention
For we concocted the notion of time

:- Doug.

If one event may change those following unpredictably, devastatingly, I can be more purposeful in the words I insert: I can change what’s next. It might be little. It might be large. Who can tell? But it can be with intent. Nudgingly.

:- Doug.

Our consciousness rides atop our unconscious going “Whee!”

:- Doug.

We are machines in a clockwork world—so we have told ourselves these last three centuries. When will it be time to tell ourselves a human story? How long before it seeps to our bones?

:- Doug.

Growth tends
toward complexity
do we notice what this means?
flexibility
openness
vulnerability
scary!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1637

First there came flooding of the low-lying coastal cities, forcing businesses and people to relocate inland. Then the weather went from extreme to extreme which caused crop failures 7 years running; plant diseases spread; beef and chicken production dropped to half. Malnutrition among humans led to the spread of disease—and wars. Despite all that we were unprepared for “the disease” which wiped out 60% of the world population in just 5 months, 80% in 2 years.

And that was what saved us.

There were not enough of us to sustain our former birth rates which meant a re-thinking of corporate growth philosophy. Besides, we had bodies to bury and ill folks to tend. We saw the face of love—and our real growth. We started anew.

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Friend, into your holy unknown. Now.

:- Doug.

Your hand knows how to keep the full cup from spilling; your eye does not.

:- Doug.

It could be very rich. Perhaps more rich to the extent I am empty.

:- Doug.

The first thing is I know next to nothing.
The second thing is all I can say relates.
Third, being here we expand each other’s world.

:- Doug.

A truth there is that arises among us. We grow up inside it, not it inside our heads or even hearts. It has to do with life. Life has to do with touching the world around us reaching out in turn to touch us. This is conversing. This is loving.

:- Doug.

The land on which we live is sacred; periodically we must renew our relationship to its sacred character. We are approaching a time of sacred renewal. We have progressed far from life and reverence.

:- Doug.

Perhaps every stage of life is a threshold we can accept or refuse to cross.

:- Doug.

A class must be alive: the facilitator therefore present and his or her plan for the day fresh with this particular day.

:- Doug.

A toilet paper roll is this feeling that time passes more quickly as we age: the less remains, the faster the roll turns.

:- Doug.

The notion of aboriginals to ask permission to take animals and plants might not be too far fetched: we are all sentient and are in this together; we must be cognizant of what we are doing and the cost to other beings. We all must eat; we do not have to massacre. Like we did to the buffalo and the baby seals. Like we are doing with nuclear waste to our own great grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1636

I need this quiet time, with all that seems swirling about and within my head. I do not want to take it, I want to move on. It is needful.

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