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This needs more work: we are promising.

:- Doug.

Big questions: What we can do

:- Doug.

Concerns, approaches, things getting in our way\

:- Doug.

We have world-class concerns. We have world-class ways to approach them. We have world-class things getting in our way. If not us, who? If not now, ever?

:- Doug.

Compassion in a Dollars and Numbers World.

:- Doug.

Compassion on an Impossible Schedule

:- Doug.

Together, working better with elders

:- Doug.

The movie ended with unendurable grief—a mother’s wailing, a father’s howling his son’s name. It asked us What happens next? Here art displays life, for life asks every day, What happens next?

:- Doug.

Everyday fulfilled

:- Doug.

Give all of myself.
Vulnerably.

:- Doug.

Conversation points people to the larger.

:- Doug.

If we stand up in fear often enough, we will fail. Because it matters to who we are we must stand up anyway.

:- Doug.

There are living aspects of the universe. You and I may see some of them, others miss them.

:- Doug.

Everything you do changes your life, changes the world, changes what we all perceive.

:- Doug.

This step is speaking truth to power. You could wind up in prison. It could change your life. But everything you do changes your life—if you play it safe, that too.

:- Doug.

The war with ISIS—even remembering “they” started it—is extended, made more violent by our actions. Our first thought is to turn to the military. Here we find predictable answers involving killing in return. Neither side is thinking beyond killing. We have not yet thought of it: there is another way.

:- Doug.

Say the thing
You carry
The world has a right to hear you

:- Doug.

Gathering means also
Gathering all my voices
Gathering resolve, speaking

:- Doug.

You’re not meant
To let God, Jesus, or the Prophet
Do it for you
You have head heart hands vision
You’re meant to get to work
He prayed “God
Rid me of God”

:- Doug.

Wisdom I study
mainly from the inside

:- Doug.

Outraged!
Deeply offended
Enough to kill!
Recall “greater things than these”
The day has arrived to
Move beyond Jesus

:- Doug.

Depth was touched.

:- Doug.

I am a friend of elders, of reflection, and of the long view.

:- Doug.