We are all….
We are all we’ve got—we are all there is.
:- Doug.
It’s not an idle question: you’ve lived long enough to begin to glimpse larger outlines. Can you ask a question which takes a life to answer?
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Who are the people?
Who are the people in our community who are doing things that matter, asking questions that matter? Who are the weak the lost the small the Anawim who convict us of the need for justice? Where is there a need for justice, here?
:- Doug.
interweave your selves, live!
Converse as if this were your last conversation: tell a story, ask a question, share your cor, connect, connect, connect, interweave your selves, live!
:- Doug.
A role for OST in Complementary Currency?
To our good friends–
I have been wondering: Is there a role for OS in helping a community adopt a complementary currency? Is this too much of an education project, at least at the start?
We are working on this in our South Bend–Michiana–St. Joseph and Marshall County areas in Indiana, and I keep asking myself these questions.
In a big way, there are a lot of questions and a lot of information needs to be assimilated and transferred. On the other hand, there is so much complexity that we could be forever in the What are the possibilities stage and never get to implementation. Implementation is what OST is good at. Also, our committee seems to have decided on a certain model out of many, and it feels a little top-down, a little like there could be more creativity brought to bear if we got more heads and hearts actively involved. OST would bring us that.
Maybe Ted Ernst or Michael Herman would have some experience or ideas that would help.
:- Doug.
Living passionately while filling out your tax return
How can you live passionately while
filling out your income tax return?
Why do we not live deeply when
driving to work?
Where is real life
if not here?
:- Doug.
Half-way to this?
To our good friends–
Open Space is a half-way technology. So says Harrison Owen. Half-way to what?
Open Space Technology, The World Café, and the dozens of other meeting formats that have been appearing among humans the last few decades are harbingers of a growing shoot. The growing edge is to see what can be done to improve humanity in a fundamental way. The direction is toward collaboration, or more precisely toward growing us from the fact that there is something larger afoot. That something larger suggests that we are an intricate interwoven pulsating and throbbing one. Or can be.
So we are half-way, perhaps, to developing technologies and sciences that bring us together, foster and grow from conflict, increase diversity and passion, and ensure that each generation following ours is more human than the one before it.
:- Doug.
Will people support the central work of humanity?
Not will people pay money, but will people find a way to support the central work of humanity?
:- Doug.
Spending as much on interrelating
What if we spent as much effort and resources as we have spent on conquering space and conquering nature and conquering each other on learning and developing our capacity to interrelate? What advances could we make? What difficulties could we obviate? Whom could we be? What could we learn from life and the true living of it?
What if we saw career as a life of personal and societal development through work? What is our stake in the lives of others? How do we already reassure each other?
:- Doug.
The keyboard and the deeper side
To my good friends–
Literacy can lead eventually to the right brain, for we learn to contact the right brain through recording harder to reach parts of the psyche, the person himself or herself, for instance with journaling and mystical writings and poetry. This is the point: harder to reach.
The left brain finds writing, particularly alphabetical, its easy playground; the right brain can play there, but needs a bit of time and perhaps effort, but can come there, too. So literacy by itself is not the problem; it is only a tool.
The keyboard has perhaps brought back the left hand into equal importance. E and S are there, I and H on the right side (the easiest Morse code letters). R, S, T are left, N is right (the letters most often called early in Wheel). The letters we use the most are equally distributed to both hands. Interesting.
:- Doug
The most important conversation
The most important conversation
is not with G-d,
but with your neighbor,
for this is where you are.
Later you will come to see
this is where G-d converses.
:- Doug.
We are tentacles
We are tentacles, one for another, feeling, hearing, seeing, extending, loving.
:- Doug.
to be kind to
Whatever you set out to do,
Whenever,
You need someone to talk with
He or she or they will companion you,
Will help you
But mainly will be someone for you
to be kind to.
:- Doug.
Tell the story larger….
Tell the story larger. Wait for the invitation, then make sure you accept.
:- Doug.
