a new now is at hand
Let us be about working with people who see that a new now is possible—at their hands.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
even hear
Converse: When we speak and hear, peace is possible, even between nations. When we speak and hear, new is possible, even in a faltering economy. When we speak and hear, life is possible, even here.
:- Doug.
There is hope in people
There is hope in plenty of people engaging one another. You talk to me. I hear you. We do something for the world. Others talk with us. We hear each other. We all do something for the world. Others talk with others. We hear about what others are doing for the world. We all do something for the world. Hope yearns for hope. Hope brings forth hope. We can.
:- Doug.
Writing God empty
People often write God as empty, while I see G*d as exploding, reaching out.
:- Doug
My mouth has been closed
My mouth has been closed for several years. Is it time to speak up?
:- Doug.
Problem solving?
Some problems we do not solve—they just get replaced with larger or different ones. What does that say about our problem solving as an occupier of our times?
:- Doug.
Micro communities
Seek to create micro communities—places where people together give unauthorized small acts to improve the world.
:- Doug.
The earliest recorded math lesson
The earliest recorded math lesson was in Genesis 1, where God said “Be fruitful and…multiply….”
:- Doug.
The underlying crisis
The underlying crisis is not the particular crisis but the crisis of conversation—we need to invent a way to work together, because we are being thrown together by global population compression. If we don’t we will solve that crisis through extinction—by war or disease or pestilence, what difference does it make?
:- Doug.
Missing conversations tied
The missing conversations are all tied together in one: conversation.
:- Doug.
The issues of our day
This is about the issues of our day, and the issue of the issues, the crisis of the crises, the cord that runs through them all that makes it so hard to get a handle on what we should do.
We should do. That is the simple and complex answer. It is difficult. Our problems are interlaced. We have told ourselves that other people are in charge, they will solve it. The problem is, all we have is ourselves. There is nobody else. We are the ones for whom we have been waiting. This is not just the fine sounding statement of our aboriginal elders for our time, this is the crux of all times: we are the ones.
What are we to do? Do. Who are we to do it with? Each of us who will. How? Conversing. Collaborating. We are the ones. Now is the time. Hear is the way.
Global population compression threatens us: war, anger, starvation, pandemics, poverty, disease. If we do not converse—and converse deeply, widely, intricately, causally, and committedly—our grandchildren are at risk.
We have never had to talk like this before. We have never had the planet at stake. We have never had our species at stake. We have never had the opportunities to lift us all.
Now is the time. Hear is the way.
So what we are about is working in the foundation beneath the individual issues. We are connecting people across issues. We are inventing ways to work on all the issues, creating pathways and neural connections to a larger mind, a larger collaboration, a conscious evolution.
This means getting people together to work on individual issues with an eye always on what we are doing—the ways are the underlying issue. Process is what we must invent. Meeting is what we need to grow organically.
:- Doug.
fat and unsassy?
Have we become fat and unsassy? Do we miss our chance at happiness because of all the things which have us? Deadened and dull do we miss the liveliness of risking?
:- Doug.
