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All of life is a pair of ducks.

:- Doug.

Pregnancy is a picture of patience—whatever you do it will take months. Years. Pregnant is what our words and deep inklings are—open, not complete. Completable by anyone hearing; always further completable. Pregnant. What is started by a man and woman will take ninety or so years to complete.

:- Doug.

Perhaps is an im-part-ant.

:- Doug.

Perhaps God is more human than we thought.

:- Doug.

How are we doing? As a human race?

:- Doug.

See the impish glint in the eye? Live in that glint.

:- Doug.

God needs to be weak with us so as to be in communion with us. That’s the true arrow of the desire.

:- Doug.

Can we do better? Can we imagine?

:- Doug.

Three hundred years is a call for vision for a future discontinuous with the present.

:- Doug.

Can we finally take responsibility for our dreams?

:- Doug.

In what specific ways can humanity be better?

:- Doug.

What use can we be?

:- Doug.

Get involved helping people.

:- Doug.

“Afford” is a code word for “choose.” We choose military uncontrolled cost overruns over health care, giving in to our weariness over getting started on the college degree, or taking on the community project that pulls our heart.

:- Doug.

Leave the sheet open to receive your glimpses.

:- Doug.

Human responsiveness will come not in eliminating pain but opening our eyes to others’ pain.

:- Doug.

Human responsibility is about personally bringing it home.

:- Doug.

Like to turn things inside out
and see what’s there

:- Doug.

We need to move beyond the politics of nasty.

:- Doug.

The elder is in an excellent place to show us the value in opening to others, in dialoguing with them.

:- Doug.

Stories can give us fresh eyes, show us unconsidered possibilities.

:- Doug.

So if my long view does not move you, tell me yours.

:- Doug.

Write some to collect my thoughts
talk some to collect others and their thoughts

:- Doug.