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I’m looking for three dimensional people. Who wants to talk to a sheet of paper?

:- Doug.

Driving, I was trying to get a sense of being in the presence of the always present holy, but the greyness of the day was the overarching thing for me. My attitude seemed grey, too. I saw some beautiful yellow trees, and some beauty in some one other thing (don’t remember what, just now), and those were a reminder of holiness.

It may be that I am expecting too much—I am expecting to fly or feel at home or something, and I just feel normal. Well, normal is holy too. I do not have to be ecstatic to live a particular day. I can find the holy in the meetings of the day—had a good one with my barber, about nothing of much significance, so that too was holy, sacred.

:- Doug.

That’s a horsefly of a different color!

:- Doug.

I choose to not detach God from the world.

:- Doug.

The essential leads to production, a step in emergence. Emergence is the process of finding the essential and then producing something.

:- Doug.

What is emergence? Is it a real happening, or just a word we apply to the act of thinking together? The test would be if emergence happened if there were only a single person present. But even then, how do we separate out the voices the person has collected over a lifetime? It is entirely possible that emergence is the phenomenon we see when people think together, when they meet.

:- Doug.

It takes many voices, many minds, many hands to find the essential. It takes a group mind to find the essential. The essential is not always found, sometimes it emerges.

:- Doug.

We move from the beginning and then the muddle helps us to find our way to the essential, and when the junk is cleared, then we can start.

:- Doug.

We manipulate for each other.

:- Doug.

My work is heart and mind and interplay.

:- Doug.

Do we converse only aurally?

:- Doug.

Is your primary desire to produce something or limit what you produce?

:- Doug.

As we reach out, our manipulations manipulate each other, becoming self reflective and emergent beyond and more powerful than any individual.

:- Doug.

We will always be less than all, but with our manipulating powers we can more and more increase the good at large in the all.

:- Doug.

The all there is is my name for God; the totality of reality is God. God is inseparable from any piece of reality. Therefore is a workable worldview threefold: 1. G*d-world; 2. humans; 3. The mediator between the first two is love = Christ.

:- Doug.

There is a bigger picture than only humans. Obviously: other species, the atoms and quarks, the music of the spheres. There is poetry and an upward call—is this simply human?

:- Doug.

Humankind manipulates our environment more than any other species. And ourselves: what other species has clothing?

:- Doug.

Our worldview must have flexibility to allow for daily and decades long progress.

:- Doug.

The work we’re in the midst of may be helping to redefine Christianity, for our age.

:- Doug.

Dig with both hands! Up to our elbows! Seek our right brain and left, art and heart and Dollars and numbers. Make the world whole.

:- Doug.

This town is a beautiful place to live and work. There is beauty dotted about. There is work of justice and love to be done.

:- Doug.

Information has a shelf life. Last night I had to reinstall an old program on a new computer. Although I’m sure the registration code is well stored, it was easier to call the company and get a new one, than to go find my records.

:- Doug.

You pay only for our efforts. The heart is free.

:- Doug.