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The lawyer can demand to be heard by his or her client: can give dignity and resonance to the message of life-engendering. The lawyer can demand to be heard by his or her client’s family: can call forth an engaged and co-enacting circle.

:- Doug.

Process is key. Meeting. Standing in the face: hearing and demanding to be heard.

:- Doug.

Life is made together: it takes 4 specific works: dreaming, forming, using, and processing.

:- Doug.

What we see as magic is the process doing its work. Design alone cannot accomplish anything. Make alone cannot accomplish beauty nor life. Living it gets lost in the dailiness. All three need each other. From here, life sprouts and grows.

:- Doug.

Pattern: always be conveying the need for life and conversing, for bringing design, make, and live together in a living process. Pattern: encourage process that is beyond give and take to live and take and make. Live and create and make.

:- Doug.

We have seen ourselves as technicians in a technical society; now we need to see ourselves as humans in a living society.

:- Doug.

Making our communities live
Making our communities dance

:- Doug.

Taking to scale is simpler still, and more complex: invite everyone; hear everyone. When the experience enters the hearts and imaginations of a certain number of people—is it 500 or 5 billion?—practical scale is assured.

:- Doug.

Emergence is the process of designing, making, and living working out together a living world and from there working out a living world, and from there….

:- Doug.

It is so simple. It is so complex. It is so rooted in life as we know it—but life as we refuse to allow ourselves to see it.

:- Doug.

We are not just bumping; we are not merely weaving: we are hearing, we are working, together, creating together: we are co-enacting our world—and each other.

:- Doug.

How might we modify the sequences we use in law to help life cohere? What are the deeper structures we must attend first?

:- Doug.

We make our world
Our world makes us
These two processes are available
To us
Yet we give over the first and bemoan the second
When we could have met our
Responsibility
Lives

:- Doug.

I remind people of the process for creating life—and love—in families—and in communities.

:- Doug.

Life meets. The wind meets the leaves of the trees—different substances meet and something new comes of it. The leaves are dusted so they can see the sun and make chlorophyll and life; the wind’s direction is changed; and my thoughts are stirred. Life meets. Life goes on meeting.

:- Doug.

Goals are antithetical to life. Goals seek ends. Life seeks to go on. Nor do goals have a social contract to hear the world round them. Life meets.

:- Doug.

When was the last time you were really heard—in your family—on something that really mattered to you? That’s what I do.

:- Doug.

Perhaps we have come to the lost sheep of the house of Indiana.

:- Doug.

Better to have steps than be had by goals.

:- Doug.

Can you think of anything so small as the space between thoughts?

:- Doug.

A poet gets an inspiration, designs the poem; then makes the work; ultimately has to live this thing which now is in the poet, and is prowling around outside the poet.

:- Doug.

We can hold onto our thoughts so hard that we get tired.

:- Doug.

Goal-setting is sitting in a room, alone, trying to procreate.

:- Doug.