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There’s a message for you in your prayer.

:- Doug.

What if the world does uncrumple to somewhere near its original size? What if electricity becomes rare, used only for necessary things, and writing and communicating goes to more physical, or maybe more meta-physical ways? What if we are then and there pushed to be more now and here, to meet others face to face, heart to heart? What if we walk and bicycle and use people power to get places, to get things done? What would a world post-electricity, post-fossil power feel like?

:- Doug.

Dying
We are stars
Twinkling on a heart’s edge
A memory’s light embrace
Alive in hope someone sees us
In the dawning

:- Doug.

The people who live in fear
Have seen a great light
& shuddered
& their hearts
They’ve shuttered
But they still
Have hearts

:- Doug.

With a Will
What worlds
Can we
Create?
What ideals
Now populate?
What hearts
Evocate?

:- Doug.

Kindly find what is
inside of me
the eyes the heart asked
this of me
for there is goodly good
in me and beauty
and I know you
kindly see

:- Doug.

We need conflict just as
we need a playmate on the other end
of our teeter-totter
to go opposite us
or there is no go
or there is no fun

:- Doug.

Estate Planning is an inspirational art.

:- Doug.

We must be Willing the generations the important stuff.

:- Doug.

Larger means freeing
Larger means opening
Larger means including
Larger means embracing
Larger means creating
Larger our world

:- Doug.

I’m helping people make the world larger.

:- Doug.

People think that
because they talk
they know how to converse
People think that
because they eat
they know how to run a restaurant
People are so often off

:- Doug.

How did he/she contribute most profoundly to your life?

:- Doug.

Tell me about a time you felt deeply and truly engaged in the world and contributing.

:- Doug.

This is interesting—what will happen over the centuries to all our data? Will we keep storing it to where it will be too much to ever find anything? Will our search methods become better? Will we finally end our dependence on physical storage and somehow store all that in the ether? Will we reach the point where we cut the umbilical cord to all that old data and trust to our ability to create what we need from scratch?

:- Doug.

If someone were to ask you a really intriguing question, what would you like it to be?

:- Doug.

We are as if computers wired to a central server: all one organism, and in this case, all is alive.

:- Doug.

Good is the essential nature of humanity. There is evil there, to be sure, but the evil is weaker and only a small per centage of our constitution. Perhaps it will never be wiped out entirely, but we are strong enough that we can recognize the stupidity of its self-destructive nature—no growth can come of it. It may even be necessary for us to have as spice or as counterbalance or for wholeness.

:- Doug.

Good hearts
& good heads
accomplish much
Now let them be ours

:- Doug.

People are good
& we are aiming for good
The struggle between good & evil
proves that good still lives
proves its resiliency
& residence in our hearts

:- Doug.

What do we mean when we throw around that phrase—too much time on their hands?

Does it mean it is not worthwhile, not even worth anything? Only if you get paid for doing something is it worthwhile? What is the value of art?

:- Doug.

Mind the earth!

:- Doug.

What in the world do we want to do? What is our best?

:- Doug.