What is the work that needs doing in this world?
What is the work that needs doing in this world?
:- Doug.
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What can we do to make this a better world? What is a better world? One in which we together. Simply that. In all its plaited simplicity.
What can we do to make this a better world? What is a better world? One in which we together. Simply that. In all its plaited simplicity.
:- Doug.
Calling people out to play is central: togethering is key, fun is the soup were toasted in…
Calling people out to play is central: togethering is key, fun is the soup were toasted in. Yes, a mixed metaphor: but it kept coming up. We’re stirring that soup by jumping in and frolicking.
:- Doug.
My work is playing: inviting people out to play with life in death and nursing homes.
My work is playing: inviting people out to play with life in death and nursing homes.
:- Doug.
Playing is not for the playing but for the together
Playing is not for the playing but for the together.
:- Doug.
If we want complexity to work for us (NB: to work for life), we must work toward a complex simplicity—an interweaving of…
If we want complexity to work for us (NB: to work for life), we must work toward a complex simplicity—an interweaving of simplicity—see, the flames of a fire—nothing extra, just what is needed—for life.
:- Doug.
A goal is a way of avoiding what is on the other side, where it leads. It cuts short the conversation: I don’t want to think about what might happen next.
A goal is a way of avoiding what is on the other side, where it leads. It cuts short the conversation: I don’t want to think about what might happen next.
:- Doug.
Play is very serious business—you see, it has to do with our grandchildren, and the world we’re leaving to them.
Play is very serious business—you see, it has to do with our grandchildren, and the world we’re leaving to them.
:- Doug.
Let’s have conversations that get things done—in community, in families.
Let’s have conversations that get things done—in community, in families.
:- Doug.
What are the patterns that add life to a family?
What are the patterns that add life to a family?
:- Doug.
I invite families going into nursing homes out to play.
I invite families going into nursing homes out to play.
:- Doug.
Why do nursing homes have to be places where people do not want to go? For that matter, funeral homes?
Why do nursing homes have to be places where people do not want to go? For that matter, funeral homes?
:- Doug.
Catching glimpse of something through Chris Alexander: the work of #openspace is…
Catching glimpse of something through Chris Alexander: the work of opening space is keeping the purpose of life-intensifying ever in front. That way people have that foremost in front of them: they do the work; I am here to invite life, invite life, invite life. Every step of the way of “building that building,” of being a “people architect,” is about getting that feeling square in front of us—and keeping it there.
:- Doug.
It is the job of organizing to keep people apart; it is my job as community disorganizer to invite people to play together
It is the job of organizing to keep people apart; it is my job as community disorganizer to invite people to play together.
:- Doug.
I share my path a-searching/& invite others to walk along beside
I share my path a-searching
& invite others to walk along beside
:- Doug.
