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You together have the ability to take charge for your neighborhood. You are the salt of the earth.

:- Doug.

We bring a miracle: we show you how together you can make miracles in your neighborhood, healing one little corner of the world. The miracle we bring is the miracle of ordinary people together.

:- Doug.

Let us send out healed healers: people who will heal our ways of meeting one another so we spread taking charge for our communities.

:- Doug.

We must be on a mission to help each other heal our ways of meeting so we take responsibility for our world, together. We cannot let George do it: no George left the world better after he took his hands off the helm than we could if we together took responsibility, now.

:- Doug.

People need help. We must help.

:- Doug.

This is the miracle of stone soup: humanizing our world.

:- Doug.

If we want this to be a more meaningful world we need to bring meaning to our every day. We need to develop a program of meaning which we work, daily.

:- Doug.

9-11: We have an anniversary coming up, and oh if we could talk with one another on the level of one people!

:- Doug.

Where is community engagement important to you?

:- Doug.

everywhere between
the center of the universe is
everywhere between
the center of the conversation is
everywhere between
and so are we—the us of we—
everywhere between

:- Doug.

Conversation is natural, the thing we most desire and least do. It is what we did when first in love—talked about important stuff. We opened up, we shared the most vital, we learned ourselves and each other. It was simply a variety of significant conversation.

:- Doug.

Could the living room or the kitchen table be the hotbed of engaging everyday people in taking responsibility for their world?

:- Doug.

The quality of a community is told in the quality of its conversation.

:- Doug.

With whom would you like to converse? With whom would conversation be good?

:- Doug.

The problems come when we start thinking of them as “those people.”

:- Doug.

Maybe you’ve got more years than I do to do this work. Do you know?

:- Doug.

Now. Now is the time to invite. With this quavering voice.

:- Doug.

Look not for people who agree, but for people who will open. Invite people to see. People can see, people can hear, people can meet: then we act. Act for humanity.

:- Doug.

I am not so sure that humanity exploding on earth will end in rubble, but that is a possibility, and it will take our work to keep it from happening. We do not have a long enough view, for the earth is much older and may just take our explosion in stride. We may imagine we have more power than we do, thinking we can end the planet or at least life on the planet. We might only be able to wipe out our species and a few thousand more. But if we see (not just look) and hear (not just listen), we might discern our way.

:- Doug.

Primary elections do not bring up the strongest candidate—the system rewards tactics more than long view philosophy and statesmanship. The candidates and their handlers are guessing what will work—and deliberately trying to sway with sound bites and 30 second commercials; we have a great deal of demagoguery. Thoughtfulness is lost; our own humanity the loser. We are lessened by the TV-centered campaigning: not just as a people, not just as individuals, but as a species. More and more we vote not with our minds but with wallets. And the wallets have their own supra-human agenda.

:- Doug.

Humanity an
explosion—spreading, spreading
on the earth—and then?

:- Doug.

Here is always a good place to be.

:- Doug.

G*d us
commands not;
hoping, invites!

:- Doug.